03-07-2008, 10:52 PM
I stand corrected! A strange oversight - this being one of the few places where new land really is being made! Still, the supply of new land is not going to keep up with new demand - at least we should hope it doesn't! Hmmm...makes me wonder if the geologists have any idea if the volcano activity the last few decades is typical, low, high? Hmmm again...looking at the BI map, the coast is not showing any major protrusion where the lava has been flowing into the sea - meaning the flow these last decades must be balanced by compensating flows all along the rift zone in order to keep the coast fairly uniform along the southeast of BI. Of course, we're talking tens of thousands of year timelines, but at some point such flows must occur everywhere along the rift.