My guess is that the entire fault line doesn't move, but only segments do.

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Jun 18, 2018
10:30:40am

Fatalplacebo All-American

And they are consistent along those fault lines. Which over time makes parallel lines perpendicular to the fault lines.

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Fatalplacebo

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Generated imagery of the topology of the sea floor is also fascinating to look at.

monkeycowboy Swolley Mammoth

6/18/18 9:41am

Wait. So that's what the ocean looks like without water?

TNT

6/18/18 9:42am

Borrrriiiiinnnngggggggggg

TNT

6/18/18 9:45am

RE: Borrrriiiiinnnngggggggggg

monkeycowboy

6/18/18 9:46am

Oh momma.....Data East The Simpsons pinball (1990).....endorphin release.....

TNT

6/18/18 9:47am

I put many a quarter into that machine back in the day!

BYUtka

6/18/18 9:50am

It's a fun table. Crazy that the Simpsons Pinball Party (2003) is even better

TNT

6/18/18 9:53am

What's with the straight lines between the US and the first mountain range?

RSL

6/18/18 9:47am

Okay, So it was a bad joke. But for reals, what's with those parallel lines in the ocean floor?

RSL

6/18/18 10:24am

My guess is that the entire fault line doesn't move, but only segments do.

Fatalplacebo

6/18/18 10:30am

Ive posed the question to my uncle who is a tenured professor of Geophysics to see what he says. Ill return and report

monkeycowboy

6/18/18 10:55am

His reply (not sure if it makes sense to you all)

monkeycowboy

6/18/18 2:53pm

pretty amazing how we all live on ginormous cliffs.

Cougarclaw

6/18/18 9:53am

Even more crazy that we live on a giant blue marble hurtling through space

TNT

6/18/18 9:54am

spinning, while spinning, while spinning. at the same time

Cougarclaw

6/18/18 9:55am

Yep. It's bad. TNT gets dizzy a lot

TNT

6/18/18 9:57am

Isn't it a giant blue plate? I don't think it's a round marble.

Coug489

6/18/18 9:58am

Hello Kyrie. Welcome to CB

TNT

6/18/18 9:59am

I like how the Rockies and the Andes are squished as the land mass moved wst.

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