Ethan Sudman schrieb:
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> Basically, is there
> any theoretical maximum rate of continental drift? If so, what is it? Also,
> how quickly can the rate of continental drift fluctuate? Is there any
> theoretical limit to the rate of continental drift fluctuation?
>
Hi Ethan,
is there a theoretical maximum rate of fingernail growth? Can that rate
fluctuate?
I am not trying to be funny, but the speed of continental drift and the speed of
nail growth is pretty much the same, including the variabilities - from less
than 1cm/y in some places via 2cm/y for the North Atlantic to 8cm/y in the
Pacific. Your fingernails grow appx.3 times faster than your toe nails, and if
you take an arbitrary group of people and compare their fingernail growth rate,
it makes a nice Gaussian bell graph. This is not theory, but observation,
though.
Which rules out meters per year for continental drift and fingernails alike.
Falk
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