Most intriguing of all are the latest visible fault lines in the usual conservative American antipathy -- most of it in Mr. Giuliani's party -- to gay unions.
"I'm sure they will be working overtime to paper over the cracks, but this is the first visible fault line of a government which is bitterly divided.
For now, however, the budget has yet to be approved, the oil law and revenue sharing laws are in limbo, and there is a new and visible fault line on the Iraqi political scene.
Each of the main opposition groups enjoys different levels of support from different groups in the United States government; the most visible fault line has the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency on one side and the Defense Department and the White House on the other.
Damage zone faults within the syn-rift are commonly very straight, and may be discrete fault planes with no visible fault rock at the scale of observation, or contain relatively thin and simple zones of scaly shale or gouge.
The many kilometers of visible fault breaks on the surface of the earth presented scientists with opportunities for field investigations that ultimately lead to an improved understanding of the fault scarps that earthquakes often generate.
The top part includes two free-standing NWs, which have pure 2H crystal structure with no visible stacking faults.
The features in the first basins include Labou Flat, a dry lake used by the US Navy for low level flight operations, and Dixie Valley, with several visible earthquake fault lines that resulted from the magnitude 7.1 Dixie Valley/Fairview earthquake in 1954.
It caused 50 km of visible surface faulting on the Tonghai Fault.
This fracture zone could fit with a branch of the Soultz fault visible at the local scale (Figure 1).
Unlike in California, where there are numerous fault lines visible on the earth's surface, most of the faults in New York are deep underground and have never been mapped, Mr. Person said.
