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To: kathsua

There is a rock in the Pacific somewhere that has etched into it the sea level circa 1850. You can see the pic and see the level has not changed. Looked for the pic recently, and couldn’t find it.


16 posted on 12/05/2007 2:46:49 PM PST by Plutarch
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To: Plutarch
There is a rock in the Pacific somewhere that has etched into it the sea level circa 1850. You can see the pic and sea the level has not changed. Looked for the pic recently, and couldn’t find it.

Probably went the to the same place that uprooted tree did in the previous post....

17 posted on 12/05/2007 2:58:39 PM PST by dirtbiker (I'm a liberal's worst nightmare: a redneck with a pickup, a library card, and a conceal carry permit)
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To: Plutarch
http://www.marine.csiro.au/LeafletsFolder/45slevel/45.html

In 1841, Thomas Lempriere, an amateur meteorologist at the Port Arthur penal station, cut a notch in rock on the Isle of the Dead, the main burying ground for the isolated colony in Tasmania’s southeast. Re-surveyed more than 150 years later, this site continues to be monitored using tools of the 20th century, which can also detect vertical movement of land. The estimated rate of sea-level rise is about 1 mm/yr, near the lower end of the IPCC estimates.

19 posted on 12/05/2007 3:11:58 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Plutarch
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/467007.stm

The mark was made on the Isle of the Dead, Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1841.

20 posted on 12/05/2007 3:12:08 PM PST by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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