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Our Changing World for Thursday 9 June 2022

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  • Digging into the past of sleeping giant faults

    science Otago
    Mark, in high vis vest, sunglasses and hat places a plastic tag in the trench wall. His dog Sage is at his feet.

    5:00 AM.The Nevis Fault is a sleeping giant fault, one that awakens only every 10,000 years or so. This week, a team of geologists use paleoseismic trenching to answer questions about this fault and to figure… Read more Video, Audio

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