Word: rift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many scientists have long thought that the region's unusually harsh landscape was one more puzzle connected with the peculiar geological formations of East Africa's Great Rift Valley, a 3,000-mile series of breaks in the earth's surface, which stretches as far south as the mouth of the Zambesi River. To Tazieff, however, it is an illustration of a more intriguing phenomenon: continental drift. After years of debate, scientists have finally become convinced that the earth's huge land masses are really moving. As they see it, lava is pouring...
...earth scientist's dreamland, Afar sits at the meeting place of three such giant rift systems. Two of these cleave the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and geophysicists think that both bodies of water are gradually being widened into oceans at the rate of perhaps an inch or so a year as the lava pours out of the rifts...
Tazieff contends that the Afar triangle is, geologically speaking, a section of the expanding floor of the Red Sea. That floor, he says, has been uplifted by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other activity linked with lava flows from the Red Sea rift-whose axis has somehow been displaced slightly westward in the area of the triangle (see diagram). But the uplifting is only temporary, he writes in Scientific American. Only tens of thousands of years ago, a fleeting moment by geological standards, the Afar triangle was partially covered with seawater. As the Red Sea continues to widen and the subsurface...
After six months of rift rumors, the breakup has finally become official: come mid-May, Chet Huntley leaves David Brinlcley after a 13½ -year association that made them the No. 1 news team in the country. Huntley is headed for Marlboro Country, something called Big Sky Inc. -"a $13 million resort and leisure-time enterprise"-in Montana. Good night, David...
...really interested in the theater, so she was always embarrassed to talk about it. She'd talk of children, operations, jewelry, the stock market. I often wondered what she and Henry talked about, because these are the only subjects Henry couldn't talk about." There are rumors of rift, there are reports that Frances has been institutionalized with unshakable fits of depression...