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Old 05-10-2008, 04:09 PM
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Re: The Death Mountain Problem

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Originally Posted by Aralith View Post
Um, continents are not floating, at least not on water. There is a completely stable land mass that builds up to a peak (though with continents, usually a plateau) that sticks above the water. Now, the tectonic plates are floating on magma, but because magma has a different density than water, denser things can float on it.
they still float, do they not? that was the point i was making. I wasn't insinuating they floated on water.
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