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New Mexico is Stretching
Like a waistband after Thanksgiving dinner, New Mexico’s borders are gradually gaining girth, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
It’s not much, and it’s not happening very fast — the state is getting about an inch wider every 40 years — but the state is unquestionably expanding, according to University of Colorado geophysicist Henry Berglund and his colleagues.
This photo is a geologic and topographic map of New Mexico, showing the ages of the rocks that make up the state: yellow and orange rocks come from the Tertiary Period and are 40 to 6o million years old, while blue colors indicate Permian-era rocks that can be as much as 250 million years old.
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Like a waistband after Thanksgiving dinner, New Mexico’s borders are gradually gaining girth, according to the Albuquerque Journal.

It’s not much, and it’s not happening very fast — the state is getting about an inch wider every 40 years — but the state is unquestionably expanding, according to University of Colorado geophysicist Henry Berglund and his colleagues.

This photo is a geologic and topographic map of New Mexico, showing the ages of the rocks that make up the state: yellow and orange rocks come from the Tertiary Period and are 40 to 6o million years old, while blue colors indicate Permian-era rocks that can be as much as 250 million years old.

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Source: news.discovery.com