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<BR><BR><BR> <BR>> > But I think 100K to 1M years is too short a time: some serious geology takes<BR>> > place between Sev's time and ours, enough so that human structures<BR>> > (made of materials strong enough to endure the process) are subducted<BR>> > into the ground and then uplifted as part of mountains. I'm not sure how<BR>> > long orogenesis actually takes, but I'm guessing it's on the order of millions<BR>> > of years. Any geologists in Da Howse?<BR>> <BR>> Not a degreed geologist, but proper orgenesis takes millions of years as <BR>> does most any plate tectonic process. I don't think this length of time <BR>> can be supported in the face of the translator's comment that he has <BR>> photographed contemporary buildings that still exist in Severian's time.<BR><BR>
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...<BR>
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> The juxtaposiiton of fossils and human artifacts can be explained by <BR>> Severian interpreting what finds in terms of his eclectic education, <BR>> "fossils" actually being sculptures or artificially petrified items like <BR>> the bodies at Saltus, or any of number of deep time scenarios detailed <BR>> in previous SF and hinted at in SWORD around p.75. (morlocks, alien <BR>> colonies, abandoning the surface after atomic wars, etc.).<BR>
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Could be, yes, although I don't remember the text or context.<BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> Jeff Wilson - jwilson@io.com<BR>> < http://www.io.com/~jwilson ><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Urth Mailing List<BR>> To post, write urth@urth.net<BR>> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net<BR><BR><br /><hr />Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/' target='_new'>MSN Messenger</a></body>
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