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- From: 00bndaniels@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.geo.geology
- Subject: Re: can 1811 happen again ???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.101819.11990@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:18:19 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.132047.11817@bsu-ucs> <1992Nov16.152900.12433@hou.amoco.com>
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- In article <1992Nov16.152900.12433@hou.amoco.com>, zawr02@hou.amoco.com (Andrew W. Robinson) writes:
- > In article 11817@bsu-ucs, 00bndaniels@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu () writes:
- >> What is the "Wabash seismic zone" you are reffering to??
- >>Barron Daniels
- >
- > I'm on shakier ground with my memory, but the Wabash Seismic zone underlies
- > the western half of the Ohio River Valley and is responsible for the low level of
- > seismic activity in southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois and northern Kentucky.
- > Like the New Madrid seismic zone, the Wabash zone is coincident with and
- > probably caused by failed pre-Cambrian (?) rifts. The courses of the Mississippi
- > and Ohio Rivers are probably controlled by the basins formed by the rift zones.
- >
- > To be honest, I do not remember whether the name Wabash refers to the rift zone,
- > the seismic zone, or both. I'll try to remember to look up some references at home.
- >
- > Andrew Robinson
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- > Amoco Production Company
- > Robinson_Andrew_W/ets_ess@hou.amoco.com
- > --------------------------------------------------------------
- > Opinions expressed are solely my own.
- Thanks for the answer. I will be taking a geology class next
- spring because I have an interst in this topic.
- Barron Daniels
-