Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being satisfactorily explained for the first time. Most scientists finally agree, for example, that the continents-which look as if they once fitted together like a giant jigsaw puzzle-indeed broke off from one or two immense land masses along volcanically active cracks in the earth's crust known as mid-ocean ridges. Part of this undersea mountain chain, which girdles the earth like stitching on a baseball, has now been identified as the prime suspect in still another major geological mystery: the raw and atypical terrain of the American West...
...American cook. The book's highlight is a 50-page section on making genuine French breads with all-purpose American flour. The basic process takes seven hours at the very least. But anyone who perseveres will be rewarded by the characteristic chewy loaf with the crackly crust that Frenchmen can acquire for a two-minute trip to the local boulangerie. Other lengthy sections in Julia II deal with the production of charcuterie (sausages) and puff pastry...
...weighed more than a fraction of the 707's 180,000 Ibs. Ever so lightly, Wood brought the 707 down, down, until its huge wheels skimmed along the packed sand and began to turn. Then he eased the wheel forward and set the plane down on the baked desert crust. It held. Gaza One had safely landed at "Revolution Airstrip...
...this optimism is the upheaval in geological thinking that took place during the 1960s. No longer is the earth's crust thought of as a rigid shell, but rather as a dozen gigantic, mobile "plates." These plates are thought to be driven slowly across the terrestrial surface by enormous currents within the earth. When two plates collide, one slides under the other, causing deep and devastating earthquakes like the one that rocked Peru in June. Shallower quakes occur when two plates slide past each other, as do the two sides of the San Andreas Fault system in California...
...Upper Crust...