My Fault
Now that I'm a card-carrying member of both the Wake County and Northwestern Regional (Alleghany, Stokes, Surry and Yadkin Counties) Library Systems, I've found a book by Fred Beyer entitled "North Carolina The Years Before Man" which is a geologic history of the state. It's interesting stuff with a whole lot of shaking going on over the past billion years or so.
Anyhow, I'm reading along and there's this part about the Brevard Fault. It's a big one running from Alabama into Virgina. Seems it's responsible for the creation of the escarpment along the eastern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. "Hey", sez I to me, "that's less than a mile from where I'm sitting!"
So off I went in search of a geologic map showing the Brevard Fault and here it is.
Hmmm. Looks like this baby is about 15 miles away and, although I'm not going to lose any sleep over it, I think I will go down and have a look at the thing just to be certain that it's not moving.
One can never be too careful, you know.
Anyhow, I'm reading along and there's this part about the Brevard Fault. It's a big one running from Alabama into Virgina. Seems it's responsible for the creation of the escarpment along the eastern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. "Hey", sez I to me, "that's less than a mile from where I'm sitting!"
So off I went in search of a geologic map showing the Brevard Fault and here it is.
Hmmm. Looks like this baby is about 15 miles away and, although I'm not going to lose any sleep over it, I think I will go down and have a look at the thing just to be certain that it's not moving.
One can never be too careful, you know.
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