But even much of this basic research, critics contend, consists of collecting reams of data on earth movements that are not well disseminated to others.
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The caves began to form when earth movement caused the hard limestone to bend and buckle under the ocean and rise above the sea floor.
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"We need to find out if it was an act of earth movement or something else, " he said in a telephone interview from Tucson, Ariz.
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Peter Debreceny, a spokesman for Chicago-based Allstate Insurance Co . " Nobody was aware of this fault and the earth movement was different and unexpected ."
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The damage was much greater near the coast, where the ground tends to be softer and earth movements therefore greater, than in the hills farther inland.
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Chow said investigations showed it was due to shearing of rocks caused by pressure of earth movements and not a rockburst as claimed by the engineers.
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It is drilling wells more than a mile deep in which to put equipment to measure earth movements, and it is monitoring faults under the ocean.
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Earth movements after the Carboniferous period resulted in the up-doming of the area and, particularly in the west, the folding of the rock strata along north south axes.
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"Eugene was a mecca for the Back to Earth movement in the'70s, " said Noa O'Hare, the farmers market marketing director . " Organics found a kernel here ."
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There have also been, of course, earth movements acting on the solid rock at a later time and injection of dikes both parallel to and across the primary foliation.
