Posted on 12/17/2005 12:57:08 PM PST by jaredt112
North America isn't exactly coming apart. But it is constantly on the move, and the latest discovery of geologic creep has surprised scientists.
During the last Ice Age, large portions of North America were blanketed by giant glaciers. Although they’ve been gone for more than 10,000 years, the land they once rested upon is still recovering from the weight.
Parts of North America and other continents are slowly rising due to an effect called post-glacial rebound. That much geologists knew.
But it turns out this slow recovery is also causing a very small horizontal shift, said Eric Calais, a geophysicist at Purdue University in Indiana. The movement varies from one spot to another, but the overall effect amounts to a 1-millimeter shortening per year of the distance between Florida and the Hudson Bay in northeastern Canada. That's about an inch every 25 years.
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That's about an inch every 25 years.
Give a liberal and inch and they'll take a mile.
Not as fast as retired New Yorkers are moving to Miami.
So, let's see...if global warming is suppose to cause us Northerners to get colder, but we're moving south, then isn't it a wash?
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Oh thank God....I thought Northerners were moving down South.
Hate to break the news to ya, but we already did. It's how you got indoor plumbing and pizza.
P.S. I took my southern belle wife and moved her butt back up here to NY. She finally understands what a good bagel is!Nyaah! Nyaah!
Score another one for the Yankees!
(Just kidding!)
I got grits, don't need your stinkin bagels. :P
Altho you must be some kinda man to get a Southern girl so far from home.
She's some kinda woman because she got me to chase her to Charlotte. She's a treasure, fo' shore!
She keeps trying, but she can't get me to eat grits. I saw what a military "chef" can do to the things and they have repulsed me ever since!
That's what I thought this article would be about...
I would imagine that such a shrinkage is the result of global cooling.
Great. As if hordes of Yankees weren't enough, they're bringing their entire STATES with them.
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Coming soon. I've been slowly getting the impression that my neighbors in Cambridge MA don't share my political views...
psst...do yourself a favor. About the time NY comes leval with VA, stop mentioning grits. Just walk away, an eat your scrapple.
At that rate (1 mm/year)in fourteen zillion years North Florida will have Hudson Bay Front property. Buy now before the values go up.
Well I told MY 'Suthun Bail' she'd never get me any further North than Atlanta! Been North. Been South. South's better!
Now if I could only figure out how to fax a hogie roll... ;o)
Ah yes. Nothing like a good portion of cartilege for breakfast! Especially with gravy.
Stop rebuilding New Orleans-- Cleveland is on its way down.
What's with this North , South B.S. I'm from Californis and we eat both grits and bagels with our huevos rancheros.
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