Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries
Date: Nov 13, 2003 @ 04:05
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
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The general principal of boundary demarcation is that once a boundary is marked upon the landscape and accepted by the sovereign parties involved, it remains as marked.  This is regardless of any imperfections in the survey or of any more accurate surveys that might be done using more advanced methods that subsequently become available.  I'm sure that it would also be regardless of continental drift, which is so slow as to be inconsequential.
 
I'll leave your question about national abbreviations to someone else.
 
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Choate
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:49 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries

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 Magyarorszรกg? 
 
Eric

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