[Pyro7480]

Does this have anything to do with the hypthesis that the East Coast may become a subduction zone in a million years or so?

[Question_Assumptions]

The East Coast was already a subduction zone. That's why we have all those folded rock formations in our old worn down mountains. Central New Jersey is actually a failed rift valley. The Atlantic Ocean originally started to form between the Watchung Mountains and the Atlantic Highlands. It expanded a little, the land collapsed, and then it stopped and filled in with dust. That's why there is shale and clay all over Central NJ. And it is mighty boring shale, too, because the rift valley was a desert at the time. I woundn't mind having to hack through shale to plant trees if I could at least get a few need fossils out of the effort

[Domestic Church]

Subduction zone? Here's more possibilities...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-08/nsfc-sra080102.php

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A33626-2000May30

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/666422/posts