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To: Zavien Doombringer
Are you to imply that you know me enough to say I don't know ANYTHING about Geology and Plate Tetonics?

Zavien, I gotta go against you on this one. A seamont forms slowly over time - first volcanic eruptions builds it up and then erosion and subsidence sends it below water - the Sumatra quake might have moved it in any one direction up to a couple of millimeters, but definitely not in a manner that would have created a hazard where none existed before.

The Navy went back to some old satellite data and spotted the seamount - underwater features generate variances in mean sea level.

27 posted on 01/20/2005 10:03:31 AM PST by dirtboy (To make a pearl, you must first irritate an oyster)
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To: dirtboy
So much for college education....

Thanks anyway...I guess National Geographic is faking it too :)

32 posted on 01/20/2005 10:10:38 AM PST by Zavien Doombringer (Have you gotten your Viking Kittie Patch today? Freepmail Visualops or myself for details)
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