Forget not the Ozarks
Posted by Pikes Peak 14115 on April 6, 2024, 12:32 pm, in reply to "
Very true"
They aren't much compared with other "mountains." But they are a significant regional deformation of the land I have hiked up Magazine Mountain. Collected Speyeria diana up there. The batholith of Ozark granite is mostly subterranean, capped by long sandstone ridges. Tectonic movement there is deep down and infrequent. If an 8.0+ earthquake was generated from that, it would be much more destructive than the same along the San Andreas fault. Because of the great depth in the crust, that quake would be felt farther away. Local damage would be greater. Here and there in the Ozarks is a real diamond mine. Pressure required to crystalize carbon like that is enormous, and rare. That also indicates great subterranean pressures with even some potential for volcanism.
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