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Wed May-03-06 08:43 PM
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North America just got smaller

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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19025505.300-north-america-just-got-smaller.html

WHERE does North America end and Russia begin? The political boundaries haven't changed, but the geological ones will have to.

The Kamchatka peninsula, once thought to be on the North American plate, turns out to lie on a small, previously unknown plate.

After measuring the elevations of shorelines dating back to the Ice Age, Joanne Bourgeois of the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues conclude that Kamchatka sits on the Okhotsk plate (Geology, vol 34, p 353).

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