From: Cress, Darla, Taliah
To: Barb
Subject: tsunami
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005

I am no prophet, but when I read your story on the Northwest Revival e-mail list I felt like writing to you about what I have been thinking about since the tsunami disaster in Asia. About 40 years ago, when I was in college in California, I had a teacher who was brought up in Santa Cruz, California. He told me that a geology class in the University of California at Santa Cruz was studying a set of benches in the northeastern part of Monterey Bay (that is where Santa Cruz is located). They found that these benches were 360' high - like a series of steps. The also noted that the benches were sloped at the same angle as a tidal flat would be. They went up on the benches and took coring samples. They found that there were marine sediments - shells and coral. According to my teacher, the geologists concluded that, every 100,000 years, that part of the coast rises up 360' all at once. And they said that according to their studies, it was time to happen again. I think that the tsunami in Asia was caused by uplift much smaller than 360'. If the Pacific Plate was locked hard, maybe it would snap up quickly like that???

I tend to be over dramatic in my view of things, but what I have been thinking about in connection with the Santa Cruz uplift, was what a friend of mine, who is no geologist, say on a photograph of California taken from space. Death Valley is a perfectly round area. It has all of the characteristics of a meteor impact crater. It is about 600 kilometers (about 350 miles) in diameter. The highest mountain in the High Sierra Mountains, Mt. Whitney, is right on the northern edge of Death Valley, and the valley is the lowest place in the USA. The valley ends the High Sierras. There is also a series of faults that run east and west instead of north and south in that area. He believes that the geology of Southern California is greatly affected by damage done by the meteorite. He has written to several geologists and schools, and until a couple of weeks ago, he was told that the geology of the Death Valley was not consistent with an impact zone. The letter he received recently said that the geologist believe that it might be possible. If the first part of the story about the Santa Cruz is correct, then it might be a good thing to pray about. If it is true, it could affect a lot more than the Alaskan Peninsula.