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Raising the Land

7 November 2018
Geology

At https://phys.org/print460738798.html … the 2016 Chile earthquake caused the land to rise on two islands off the coast. A bleached fringe of dead marine algae, strung along the beach, represents the old coastline – as can be seen in the image below. This is what is known as a fault slip.

 

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