Re: Shrinking Earth


don findlay wrote:
> Stuart wrote:
> > don findlay wrote:
> > > > Stuart wrote:
>
> > > Why don't you propose the sensible alternative, that it's just
> > > overriding?
> >
> > Because its not. If it were, we wouldn't find deep focus earthuqakes
> > delineating a plane down to several hundred km.
>
> We know it's the lithosphere being talked about Stuart. Don't be
> precious.

So am I. The plane on which deep-focus seismicity is found is
delineated by seismicity up to the near surface. it is clear that we
are talking about subducted lithosphere, and it has been clear for
decades.

>
> So, again, .. why not overriding?

If that was the case we'd see a rather different distribution of
seismicity.

Stuart

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