Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four students from the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the United Farmworkers (UFW) met yesterday with Milton P. Brown, Filene Professor of Retailing, and asked him to use his influence to persuade Jordan Marsh stores to stop selling textile goods manufactured by the J.P. Stevens Company...
...earliest reported quake, an apparently minor temblor described by a Spanish explorer, was chronicled in 1769. Seeking evidence of earlier quakes, Sieh in 1974 began a painstaking tour of hundreds of miles of the San Andreas Fault in central and southern California. The following year, under an ancient marsh that straddles the fault 88 km (55 miles) northeast of downtown Los Angeles, he struck pay dirt...
Bulldozing a trench four meters (13 ft.) deep, he found several distinct breaks in the strata of sand, silt, gravel and peat that had been deposited on the bottom of the marsh over the centuries. Each break represented a sudden shift of at least a meter or two between the land masses on opposite sides of the fault-unmistakable signs of a major earthquake. Using radioactive-carbon dating techniques to determine the age of the dead organic material in the peat layers, he has now determined that the quakes occurred around...
...every 1,000 years or every 100. Now we know." Because the last big quake hit the area in 1857, Sieh concludes, "a major earthquake can be expected there within the next 50 years or so rather than, say, the next 500." Sieh may well be right. His telltale marsh is only 24 km (15 miles) from Palmdale, the center of a region that has been bulging upward for 17 years in what some seismologists feel is a prelude to a major earthquake...
...There's 52 years of history behind this city," protests Port Richey Councilman Harold C. Loser. "I question giving that up." "Nonsense," scoffs Downey. "Fifty-two years is not much of a history. Half of our city is water and sawgrass marsh anyway...