The Rio Grande rift is a north-trending continental rift zone. It separates the Colorado Plateau in the west from the interior of the North American craton on the east; the rift extends from central Colorado in the north to the state of Mexico, in the south. The rift zone consists of four basins; the rift can be observed on location at Rio Grande National Forest, White Sands National Park, Santa Fe National Forest, Cibola National Forest, among other locations. The Rio Grande rift has been an important site for humans for a long time, because it provides a north–south route that follows a major river; the Rio Grande follows the course of the rift from southern Colorado to El Paso, where it turns southeast and flows toward the Gulf of Mexico. Important cities, including Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Española, Las Cruces, El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, lie within the rift; the Rio Grande rift represents the easternmost manifestation of widespread extension in the western U. S. during the past 35 million years.
The rift consists of three major basins and many smaller basins, less than 100 km2. The three major basins are the San Luis, Española, Albuquerque basins. Further south, the rift is defined by a network of smaller, less topographically distinct alternating basins and ranges; the distinction between these smaller basins and those of the Basin and Range Province becomes blurred in northern Mexico. Basin size decreases to the north in the rift, though the Española covers 120 km north-south and 40 km east-west, the San Luis is 120 km by 80 km; these basins may contain smaller units within them, such as the Alamosa basin within the San Luis, bounded by the San Juan and Tusas mountains on the west and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the east. The Albuquerque basin is the largest of the three basins, spanning 160 km north-south and 86 km east-west at its widest points, it is the oldest of the three major basins, contains 7,350 m of Paleogene clastic sediments deposited on Precambrian basement. The southernmost Albuquerque basin contains pre-rift volcanic deposits, while the central and northern portions contain volcanics erupted during rifting.
The southernmost Rio Grande rift broadens, becoming more complex in structure and physiographically indistinguishable from the adjoining Basin and Range province. In cross-section, the geometry of the basins within the rift are asymmetrical half-grabens, with major fault boundaries on one side and a downward hinge on the other. Which side of the basin has the major fault or the hinge alternates along the rift; the alternation between these half-grabens occurs along transfer faults, which trend across the rift to connect the major basin-bounding faults and occur between basins or, in places, within basins. The Precambrian basement changes relief in this area, from 8,700 m below sea level at the bottom of the Albuquerque basin to 3,300 m above sea level in the nearby Sandia Mountains, which flanks the Albuquerque basin to the east. Flanking mountains are taller along the east side of the rift; the thickness of the crust increases to the north beneath the rift, where it may be as much as 5 km thicker than it is in the south.
The crustal thickness underneath the rift is on average 30–35 km, thinner by 10–15 km than the Colorado Plateau on the west and the Great Plains to the east. The rift is presently nearly tectonically quiescent, but significant deformation and faulting with offsets of many kilometers were responsible for its formation starting about 35 Ma; the largest-scale manifestation of rifting involves a pure-shear rifting mechanism, in which both sides of the rift pull apart evenly and with the lower crust and upper mantle stretching like taffy. This extension is associated with low seismic velocities in the upper mantle above 400 km depth associated with hot mantle and low degrees of partial melting; this intrusion of the asthenosphere into the lithosphere and continental crust is thought to be responsible for nearly all of the volcanism associated with the Rio Grande rift. The sedimentary fill of the basins consists of alluvial fan and mafic volcanic flows; the most alkalic lavas erupted outside the rift.
The sediments that were deposited during rifting are known as the Santa Fe Group. This group contains sandstones and volcanics. Aeolian deposits are present in some basins; the Rio Grande rift is intersected in northern New Mexico by the NE-SW trending Jemez Lineament which extends well into Arizona, defined by aligned volcanic fields and several calderas in the area, including the Valles Caldera National Preserve in the Jemez Mountains. The significance of the Jemez Lineament is unclear. On the Colorado Plateau but further north lies the San Juan volcanic field in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado; the youngest eruptions in the rift region are in the Valley of Fires, New Mexico, are 5,400 years old. The Socorro, New Mexico, region of the central rift hosts an inflating mid-crustal sill-like magma body at a depth of 19 km, responsible for anomalously high earthquake activity in the vicinity, including the largest rift-associated earthquakes in historic times in July and November 1906. Earth and space-based geodetic measurements indicate ongoing surface uplift above the "Socorro Magma Body".
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Lydia Bailey is an historical novel by the American writer Kenneth Roberts, first published in 1947. It spent twelve weeks at the top of the list of The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1947; the book is set in the 19th century during the Haitian Revolution, with the action taking place in Haiti and amongst the Barbary pirates. Albion Hamlin, a young American develops an obsession for Lydia Bailey, a woman he has never set eyes on. In 1952 the novel was adapted into a Technicolor film by the Hollywood Studio 20th Century Fox, it was directed from a screenplay by Michael Blankfort and Philip Dunne. The filmmakers expanded the title role far beyond her more marginal position in the novel, slimmed down the narrative while setting it on Haiti. A number of actresses were linked with the role of Bailey, including Micheline Presle, Jean Simmons, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, before it was given to Anne Francis. Lydia Bailey at Faded Page
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Trevor Metz is a Canadian journalist, documentary narrator, radio talk show host, columnist. He lives in China, he was born in British Columbia to mother Shelia Metz and father Edward "Ted" Metz. Metz started his broadcasting career on the cable TV program "Daytime", now called Urban Rush, he started with technical and camera work before moving into reporting. He left the show when he was accepted to the British Columbia Institute of Technology's Broadcast Journalism Program, leaving BCIT in his final semester to take a job at CHNL in Kamloops, British Columbia, it was there he was part of the news team that won a Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Radio for his coverage of the infamous double murder suicide at the Ministry of Water and Air Protection during a time of unprecedented government cutbacks. After two years in Kamloops radio he took a job at CKPG/CKPG-TV in Prince George, British Columbia doing both radio and television, he left CKPG after two years to take a job with China Radio International in Beijing.
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