Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries
Date: Nov 13, 2003 @ 04:16
Author: Doug Murray (Doug Murray <doug@...>)
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On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 07:49 PM, Eric Choate wrote:
> Since the continents are adrift on the sea of magma and the Prime
> Meridian goes through Greenwich, the longitude of a place changes as
> time goes by. Also, the plates can also move north and south, and so
> latitude is also variable. Yeah, it's slow enough that we probably
> won't notice, but if the Americo-Canadian border is actually the 49th
> parallel, then if North America is moving generally north, is the US
> "conquering" Canadian territory even as I type this? (I don't
> actually know which direction North America is moving. Can anyone
> help?) If we wait long enough, will Cheyenne leave the state that it
> is the capital of?
>
> Or, is the actual border a line on the continent connecting a bunch
> of key points that were determined by what their latitudes and
> longitudes were when a border dispute was settled?
>
> This is my first post as I'm new to the group. I have a question
> about the shorthand used to indentify boundary corners. Is it the two
> letter codes used for web addresses in English alphabetical
> order? And on another note, if Croatia's abbriviation HR is derived
> from its name in Croatian, why then is Hungary's HU not derived from
> Magyarorsz·g?
>
> Eric
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