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From: Michael Bradley
Date: 2007 Oct 4, 10:23 -0700
From: Michael Bradley
Date: 2007 Oct 4, 10:23 -0700
Hello again Frank The sinking Scillies and the populations future need for flotation... A quick web search on 'Scilly Islands Geology' on Yahoo threw up a government planning paper 'A Heritage and Cultural Strategy for the Isles of Scilly' from www.scilly.gov.uk. The 'geology' section of this planning documents reports the known tilting of the granite base rock as well as the rising sea level. My anecdotal ( but secondary) informant is a geographer who was there this summer with a sailing dinghy - perhaps not a full blast scientific reference but good enough for me - he's a trusted friend as well as being a yotter who has circumnavigated two up going to the geographically interesting places rather than the popular places. Maybe the flotation won't be needed next week... I'm sure the residents of the Scillies can sleep sound in their beds, at least until after Christmas (joke). Michael --- frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.net wrote: > > Michael, you wrote: > "The relative sinking of the Scillies faster than > that caused by the rising > sea level alone is an observed fact, Frank." > > It is? That's fascinating! Do you happen to know the > rate? I have heard a > number of fanciful tales about this, and as I've > said I've been skeptical of > those, but I would be really pleased to know that > this is an "observed > fact". PLEASE, can you point me to some scientific > observations to back this > up? Thanks in advance. > > -FER > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---