On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:27:52AM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > The Pacific plate is constantly moving relative to and under the > Australian one. This is what has created the Southern Alps where the > Pacific plate gets deep enough under the Australian one to melt ( known > as a subduction zone ). This is the opposite from the North Island, > where the volcanics are on the eastern side. There's a big tear through > the Cook Straits because of this contrariness.
interesting. just checked a map. so north-island is on the australian plate, but south island is not. do i sense a pun here? greetings, martin. ps: news of the quake found their way north. hope you all are well... -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix searching contract jobs: debugging, programming, training and administration -- pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org foresight developer (open-steam|caudium).org foresightlinux.org unix sysadmin iaeste.at realss.com Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.at/~mbaehr/ is.schon.org _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
