- 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
Nov 13, 2003 @ 03:49 - Eric Choate (Eric Choate <choatune@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries
Welcome Eric! And... The US-Canadian border is where it is. In reality, it is not very accurate. There is a graph of the deviations along the 49th out there
Nov 13, 2003 @ 04:16 - Doug Murray (Doug Murray <doug@...>)
- Re: Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries
Also, the actual definitions of the latitude lines are independent of how the continents might be configured; they re just relative to the orb of the earth and
Nov 13, 2003 @ 06:24 - adamnvillani ("adamnvillani" <avillani@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries
Adam, ... The prime meridian (i.e. 0 degrees longitude) was only established as running through Greenwich by the International Meridian Conference in 1884, and
Nov 13, 2003 @ 13:04 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries
Eric, ... ISO 3166-1 country and territory codes are generally based on the English short name, except where those territories have French as the official
Nov 13, 2003 @ 13:06 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
- Re: Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries
... Serbia and ... it seems ... hot dang & you may recall i not only invented the preposterous crna srpa & cs but also predicted this exact demise for it too
Nov 13, 2003 @ 16:35 - m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
- Re: Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries
... if ... indeed yet not only is east not always east & west not always west but even north & south are purely arbitrary if western civ had been invented in
Nov 13, 2003 @ 16:40 - m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
- Re: Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries
... established by ... territories ... long way ... That s true. Unfortunately I don t think I ve ever seen a map that wasn t specifically a time zone map that
Nov 13, 2003 @ 19:49 - adamnvillani ("adamnvillani" <avillani@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries
- 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
Nov 13, 2003 @ 20:23 - Jim Smith ("Jim Smith" <jwas@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries
Jim, ... For most countries using the Latin character set, the local name will not be too far removed from the English or French name (the official languages
Nov 13, 2003 @ 23:37 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
- Re: Plate Tectonics and Lat/Long boundaries
... used to ... alphabetical ... hi jim & i apologize if this leading part of your question was never properly answered til now but yes indeed as things have
Dec 02, 2003 @ 23:57 - m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)