Re: Earth's Slowing Rotation - The underlying cause of Earthquakes, etc.

From: tic (tic_at_toc.an)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:15:31 -0600

> That is a lot of surface to crunch into its shrinking equatorial
> waistline. A lot of earthquakes and mountain uplifting had to take
> place over the 4.5 billion years as the planet continually adjusted to
> its new ever rounder shape.

   That's an interesting idea. What about the moon? If it never has rotated,
then there should be no mountains and rifts on the moon Are there any
mountains on the moon?

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