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#Subduction & Ocean Basin

    06-Feb-95 22:59:08
Fm: Doug Mitchell 70621,702
To: Kamron Kirkconnell 73740,2246
Hi, Kamron– Give the poor workers a little credit. I rather expect they are well aware of tidal influences and are compensating for them – this is too obvious to be missed and any peer review would surely bury them deeper than the lithosphere without it (hmm, what an opportunity for study… :). There might be room for doubt about the exact method of compensation – but that is not going to make a huge (even relative to what we are looking for) difference. I wonder what other sources of systematic error there might be… I don't know about inches, but GPS can be used with far more accuracy than ordinary civilian devices permit if one has access to military equipment or a reference station for differential measurements. I am sure the researchers have at least the latter if they are using GPS – they would be laughed off the plate without it. –Doug