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- From: jcg0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOHN CHARLES GOSSE)
- Newsgroups: sci.geo.geology
- Subject: Re: Fission - Fusion... Fissure - Fusure?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.195451.38223@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 19:54:51 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- In article <1ejn00INNc06@morrow.stanford.edu>, karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck
- Karish) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.185711.11843@sco.com> brianm@sco.com
- >(Brian Moffet) writes:
- >>Fission is the splitting of atoms, and Fusion is joining of 2 atoms
- >>
- >>A fissure is a split in the ground usually caused by an earthquake,
- >>plate movement (without an earth quake?), or some other means.
- >>
- >>Is there a fusure? Perhaps the Himalayan mountains?
- >
- >The place where two continents have collided and
- >joined into one is often called a "suture". The
- >Himalayas mark one suture, the Alps another, the
- >Urals a third (I think).
- >--
- >
- > Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
- > (415) 323-9000 x117 karish@pangea.stanford.edu
- >
- fur sure!
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- J. Gosse: EES--Lehigh U
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