Subject: Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries<br/>
Date: Nov 13, 2003 @ 03:49<br/>
Author: Eric Choate (Eric Choate &lt;choatune@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1332566451"><div>Since the continents are adrift on the sea of magma&nbsp;and the Prime Meridian&nbsp;goes through Greenwich,&nbsp;the longitude of a place&nbsp;changes&nbsp;as time goes by.&nbsp; Also, the plates can also move north and south, and so latitude is also variable.&nbsp; Yeah, it&#39;s&nbsp;slow enough that we probably won&#39;t&nbsp;notice, but if the&nbsp;Americo-Canadian border is actually the 49th parallel, then&nbsp;if&nbsp;North America is moving&nbsp;generally north,&nbsp;is the US &quot;conquering&quot;&nbsp;Canadian territory even as I type this?&nbsp; (I don&#39;t actually know which direction North America is moving.&nbsp; Can anyone help?)&nbsp;&nbsp; If we wait long enough, will Cheyenne leave the state that it is the&nbsp;capital of?&nbsp;&nbsp; </div>
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<div>Or, is the actual border&nbsp;a line on the continent connecting a bunch of&nbsp;key&nbsp;points that were determined by&nbsp;what their latitudes and longitudes were when&nbsp;a border dispute was settled?</div>
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<div>This is my first post as I&#39;m new to the group.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I have a question about the shorthand used to indentify boundary corners.&nbsp; Is it the two letter codes used for web addresses in English alphabetical order?&nbsp;And&nbsp;on another note, if Croatia&#39;s abbriviation HR&nbsp;is derived from its name in Croatian, why then&nbsp;is&nbsp;Hungary&#39;s HU not derived from Magyarorsz<span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman';">�</span>g?&nbsp; </div>
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<div>Eric</div><p><hr SIZE="1">
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