Re: OT: Notice of Revocation of Independence
| From: | Tristan Mc Leay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 13, 2004, 0:38 |
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On 13 Dec 2004, at 11.11 am, caeruleancentaur wrote:
> I'm having a déjà vu with respect to the number of continents.
> I've
> been here before on some Yahoo group. Geographers talk about seven
> continents, a partly arbitrary and historical division. Geologists
> have a totally different definition. They talk about tectonic
> plates, in which case there are more than seven. Browse
> for "tectonic plates" and see where all the plates are. India is a
> separate one, as is the Arabian Peninsula.
Well, unless it's broken recently, India isn't on a separate one, it's
just not on the same as the rest of Asia. It shares Australia's plate
(as the Indo-Australian plate). But I think the eastern border, with
the Pacific plate, is one of the fastest moving, whereas the north-west
border, with the Asian plate, is one of the slowest, so I wouldn't be
surprised if that caused stress and broke it...
--
Tristan.