(urth) Cumaean???

[Matthew Malthouse]

At 22:44 14/12/2007, you wrote:
>I'm guessing Dan'l is referring to the scene where Severian, IIRC,
>describes climbing a sheer cliff with strata after strata of human
>artifacts exposed by erosion.  How would a geologist account for that?


And the miners of the village of Saltus mine artifacst and detrius of 
habitation rather than minerals.

This could be from tels - mounds grown up from long habitation. But 
the impression is given that this is the common condition across Urth 
which would be some feat.

Those however are still not on a geological scale.  One thing that 
does suggest those sorts of times.  The mountains that have since 
Typhon's prototype all been carved into the likenesses of Urth's 
autarchs.  When Severian comes across uncarved mountains we might 
think that the carvers didn't reach that far.  But _he_ thinks that 
they have been thrust up since the old mountains were carved.  And 
this is close to where he decends that cliff of artifacts - I think 
the reader is supposed to believe that geological ages have passed.

Pedro Pereira writes
>South America seems to be basically the same as now

Except that the main drainage is not West to East but North to South?

If the continent has spun 90 degrees might we be allowed a few new 
mountians in the process?

Matthew


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