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- From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price)
- Newsgroups: sci.geo.geology
- Subject: Re: rising sea level & continetal drift
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:45:15 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- Message-ID: <1eblkrINNb86@crcnis1.unl.edu>
- References: <97619@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov17.103653.28846@zoo.bt.co.uk>
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- jcs@zoo.bt.co.uk (John C Sager) writes:
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- >In <97619@netnews.upenn.edu>, jmartin@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jason J Martin)
- >writes:
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- >>I have a question about the rising sea level......I'm told that the sea level
- >has risen quite a bit in the past few hundred years. Could this rise in sea
- >level have to do with the moving continents? Could the total amout of ocean
- >floor be decreasing? Something like that would cause a rise in sea level.
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- >No, actually it's caused by the earth shrinking:-)
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- Did you say your name is Warren Carey?? :-) I could have sworn your return
- address was not Australia.
-
- --
- chad
- price@helios.unl.edu
- cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
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