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To: Old Professer

Well, I suspect the total motion is less than 6,000 miles as Ellesmere Island isn't RIGHT at the north pole today, and it didn't have to be RIGHT at the equator...just near it...375 million years ago. so maybe actually 5,000 miles.

But 2.2 inches a year is a typical plate motion speed; North America is moving about that fast right now. The fastest plate in the world is moving over 9 inches a year.


40 posted on 04/05/2006 11:11:46 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

Makes one giddy just thinking about it. Why aren't continents throwing up bow waves in the ocean? Where is the wake? (OK, that's an Island in the Pacific.)


45 posted on 04/05/2006 11:18:05 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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