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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
>
>
>
>
>
>



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