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The western boundary of the North American plate currently lacks a trench, a sign that at least part of the plate has been high centered. We are certain the continent broke from Europe at the Mid-Atlantic ridge, so why doesn't it have a trench, like South America. Symmetry suggests that one be there to match the pattern of trenches along the southern Americas. But, it is missing. The answer -- the North American continent shuffle stepped over a now inactive ridge. The western side of the United States is stalled. It cantilevers atop a leg of the East Pacific Rise, which lies almost due north under the Mexican state of Sonora and the American states of Arizona and Nevada -- Figure VII. An abnormally wide transform fault follows the northern California border out to sea to join up with a new rise. This new rise, which now appears to include a shield volcano, then skirts the coast line to disappear in the direction of the north magnetic pole at the northern British Columbia border. To day, Hot Spots form a crescent north to Wyoming and Montana turning west through Idaho and Washington. In addition, 2,500 meters of the stratigraphic column have been exposed to view in the Grand Canyon, Zion Canyon and Bryce Canyon by the uplifting action of deep Hot Spot domes and subsequent erosion. Alternately, a goodly portion of the above mentioned uplifting may have been caused as the continent rode up over the East Pacific Rise's ridge.

Eventually, as the domes under the North American continent build, the western portion of the United States will rip apart and, with the help of succeeding ages, shuffle step away from the north-south line of the domes. Needless to say, if the breakup were to occur reasonably soon, it would be devastating to the nation and the world at large, but at this moment what is most unsettling is the under ground nuclear test site at Yucca Flats, Nevada. The United States currently is not testing nuclear weapons, but this is subject to change if the world’s balance of power shifts. Underground nuclear testing may well be analogous to a small child banging his toy mallet on your prized marble table. The first 99 blows show no visible damage, but the hundredth blow breaks an edge off of your prized table.

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