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To: Servant of the 9

Besides the end of the ice age climate shift, the continent of Australia is slowly drifting north and east. The drift is towards a dryer and hotter area and accounts for some of the change. The drift is slow but has been going on for a couple of million years.


18 posted on 01/26/2005 1:03:27 PM PST by RicocheT
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To: RicocheT
"Besides the end of the ice age climate shift, the continent of Australia is slowly drifting north and east. The drift is towards a dryer and hotter area and accounts for some of the change. The drift is slow but has been going on for a couple of million years."

Australia is drifiting at about the same rate as your fingernails grow.

32 posted on 01/26/2005 5:04:19 PM PST by blam
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