Re: Re****t From The Garden...."Cap'n Thar Be Worms Here!"

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<wildbilly-FEC6B1.12484804052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > Theoretically, the San Andreas fault is the edge of a continental
plate. 
> > Some doomsayers say that that part of California (West of the SA
fault) 
> > will eventually be underwater.
> 
> No, that's the San Juan de la ****ha subduction fault, where the Pacific 
> plate is sliding under the North American plate. Before the San Andreas 
> fault arrived with the Pacific plate, the sub-ducted Pacific plate gave 
> rise (;-)) to the Sierra Nevada Mt.s in California.
> The melting ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctica may raise the sea

> level 200 ft., which would mean a much shorter dive to the beach.
> -- 
> 
> Billy

Ah, thanks for the correction. :-) Part of the "Ring of Fire"?

When I lived near the Mojave, we had to dump our own trash. They were 
using the San Andreas Fault ravine as a landfill.

The melting of the poles would do the same thing here, but we are 
sufficiently above current sea level to be safe.
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