Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vieques, looked for the pasture emergency field there. He had no trouble finding it. On the side of a hill his eye caught the red, white & blue of a huge stone U.S. flag alongside the globe & anchor of the Corps emblem. A legend ran across the hill in whitewashed rock: "U.S. Marine Corps-Semper Fidelis...
Hitherto, scientists have believed that in the so-called "area of flow" miles beneath the earth, under the terrific confining pressures, the rock would remain in a state of flow and would not break...
According to the new theory, which postulates that the rocks may break in deep quakes where confining pressure is great, the flowing rock breaks and quickly heals again. In the surface quakes, the break is not healed, and readjustments occur as hundreds of minor shocks...
...Ossipee earthquake, the center of disturbance was 21 miles below the surface, and the quake came as a result of a sudden break in the rock. The second shock at Lake Ossipee was probably due to a gigantic underground rebound from the first, Dr. Leet said...
...Castle Rock, Colo...