[Rockhounds] Difference between East and West Coast US earthquakes, was New Madrid fault

[jb]

J Bryan Kramer wrote:
> That's interesting, of course the west was created by a series of island
> chains crashing into the western coastline. That created the Basin and Range
> topography and of course fractured the rock and created all those faults.
> McPhee has a good book about it called, no surprise, Basin and Range
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> http://www.amazon.com/Basin-Range-John-McPhee/dp/0374516901/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238175482&sr=8-1
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> But it's better to get it in his compilation Annals of the Former World
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> http://www.amazon.com/Annals-Former-World-John-McPhee/dp/0374518734/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238175482&sr=8-2
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> BK
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Amen to that. One of the great general geology books. I think it should 
be required reading for every high-school junior or senior.


john