Sentences with phrase «creating fault lines»
Here, the descent of the Pacific Plate has pushed against and cracked the North American Plate in several places, creating fault lines of various lengths and depths.
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The Secular City helped accelerate the secularization of American elite culture, which created not only new openings in the public square for more - traditional religious bodies but also new fault lines in our politics» fault lines that are as visible as this morning's headlines and op - ed pages.
And in 2003, the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping was created (with funding from the National Science Foundation) in partnership with the University of Florida and the University of California, Berkeley to promote the use of ALSM in ongoing research — and so far it has even pinpointed at least one previously unknown fault line (near Puget Sound, WA).
Super-shear quakes may create more violent tremors farther from the fault line than shear quakes do.
They are the result of natural radiation distorted by electromagnetic fields which are created by subterranean running water, usually along fault lines or through underground cavities.
As new technology allows, or as poverty demands, rich and poor alike have pushed into soggy floodplains or drought - ridden deserts, built on impossibly steep slopes, and created vast, fragile cities along fault lines that tremble with alarming frequency.
Hughes seeks to drill wells near fault lines which create natural fractures due to faulting.»
2016 was one of the most turbulent years in recent memory, and laid bare the fault lines created by globalization and automation — particularly of jobs that have been performed by blue - collar workers.
must be a blanket the city or county put out to cover faults created by there construction of the new sewer lines?