California saved from catastrophe by baby powder's clinically proven mildness!
 

Country's Geologists and mothers put aside past animosities and thank Johnson and Johnson!

The same soft powder used to prevent painful chafing between the thighs of marathoners, on babies' bottoms and in new hiking boots may also be easing friction along the San Andreas fault.
Geologists at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park discovered talc, the softest known natural mineral, in a two-mile-deep hole drilled into the fault near Parkfield in Central California.
The discovery could explain one of the fault's most puzzling features — a 100-mile long zone that slowly creeps along rather than sticking for years and then slipping suddenly as other sections of the fault do.
The research by USGS geologists Diane Moore and Michael Rymer, which appears today in the journal Nature, is part of a project called the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth, which has been drilling into the fault near Parkfield for four years with the aim of better understanding what causes earthquakes.

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When Mother Earth's ass crack needs soothing, she turns to Talc.

hmm....

drilling holes into a known major fault line in one end of the world.
7.8 earthquakes along the same coast on the other end of the world

coincidence??????








yeah, probably :D

Maybe if we squirted KY Jelly along the entire fault line we could cure earthquakes all together?

Hey, it's an idea! :D

Not often you see this in a geology article:

Yes, but at least it's inorganic! :eek:

Organic self lubricants are kind of discusting......;)