CompuServe Messages

The island(s) that will eventually be created from the California(s) coast(s) isn't necessarily going to be in the middle of anything. It's caused (apparently) by a continent enroaching on a plate that is rotating with respect to another. So what seems to be happening is that a sliver of land (3000 km long by 200 wide) is being ripped from North america and swung off Counter clockwise into the Pacific. This same phenomenon probably could (and probably has) occur(ed) elsewhere and can put continental chunks just about anywhere.