(urth) Cumaean???

[Pedro Pereira]

 > > But I think 100K to 1M years is too short a time: some serious geology takes> > place between Sev's time and ours, enough so that human structures> > (made of materials strong enough to endure the process) are subducted> > into the ground and then uplifted as part of mountains. I'm not sure how> > long orogenesis actually takes, but I'm guessing it's on the order of millions> > of years. Any geologists in Da Howse?> > Not a degreed geologist, but proper orgenesis takes millions of years as > does most any plate tectonic process. I don't think this length of time > can be supported in the face of the translator's comment that he has > photographed contemporary buildings that still exist in Severian's time.
I agree with you here regarding time. But anyway, after material gets subducted, I garantee that there will be no vestigies of anything when it gets back to form new crust...
 
> The juxtaposiiton of fossils and human artifacts can be explained by > Severian interpreting what finds in terms of his eclectic education, > "fossils" actually being sculptures or artificially petrified items like > the bodies at Saltus, or any of number of deep time scenarios detailed > in previous SF and hinted at in SWORD around p.75. (morlocks, alien > colonies, abandoning the surface after atomic wars, etc.).
 
Could be, yes, although I don't remember the text or context.> > -- > Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com> < http://www.io.com/~jwilson >> _______________________________________________> Urth Mailing List> To post, write urth at urth.net> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
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