• Question: as cliffs keep retreating because of the waves will all the earth erode?

    Asked by alipali to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 13 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Mario Campanelli

      Mario Campanelli answered on 13 Mar 2012:


      eventually, but this assumes that there is no geological activity going on, while we know that for instance the Alps are still growing

    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 13 Mar 2012:


      The clifs are eroding, but the plates pushing into each other is making more land. Volcanoes erupting also make more land, briging up lava from the earth’s core. If that didn’t happen there would be no land left already.

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