Ross,

Great site but I think you missed a decimal point.  Isn't the annual rate
closer to 2 or 3 mm per year?  In any case, it will be a while before I see
seashell here at 5,300 feet (other than Corbicula flaminea or the Asian Clam
in our irrigation ditches -- as I smoothly ensure my comments are at least
peripherally shell related).  As for rising land, we have that also as a
city to the south (Soccoro) is situated on top of a huge magma dome that is
slowly rising (I believe at a higher rate than the world's oceans).  Now
there we have the posibility of some excitement.

Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA