Other subjects included a study of seismic stability around the world's deepest undersea pipeline, the 446-kilometer ( 278-mile ) Blue Stream carrying gas under the Black Sea, and an alternative explanation of the Biblical flood of Noah.
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The southern side of the Alaska Peninsula is rugged and mountainous, created by the uplifting tectonic activity of the North Pacific Plate subsiding under a western section of the North American Plate; the northern side is generally flat and marshy, a result of millennia of erosion and general seismic stability.
