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And enjoyment for me. 
I fondly remember my weeks of field class at the Poleta Folds in the White - Inyo Mtns. |
It is amazing when you see rock folded like it was a bed blanket.
I found this about a north-south fault system south southeast of Reno and the referenced paper.
The Discovery News story, pg2, states:
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As a strike-slip fault, however, it could be part of a growing set of north-south running faults in eastern California and western Nevada that some geologists suspect are gradually taking over the San Andreas' role as the major boundary between the North American and Pacific tectonic plates.
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I can not state that this is part of the quakes in the Reno-Mogul area, but it points in that direction.
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(By the way, I hate it that so many papers in the areas of planetary science and geology are not easily avaiable to the dreaded "non-subscribers". It is like they are screaming at me: "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH". Good, I feel better now.)
I know you are a person who takes his physics seriously, but isn't it said that most great discoveries aren't discovered with "Eureka!" but with, "Hmmm, that's funny." Big Don
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