Some 50 miles from where I live the land sharply drops off 1,500 feet to
the Rio Grande valley below. It’s an unexpected and breathtaking view
when one crests the incline and the entire landscape opens up, filling the
vision.
Since the tectonic collision that forced up the mountains suggests a weakness
in the Earth’s crust at that point, it is possible that a massive earthquake
in the West of the country would create a fracture, effectively splitting
the continent in two and recreating, once again, the vast central ocean.
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