Phenomenological Hints To The Cause Of The EMC Effect

Deep-inelastic scattering cross section ratios plotted as a function of xB show that quark structure in nuclei is different then free nucleons. Recent Hall C data showed that the slope in the 0.3 $<$ xB $<$ 0.7 region of the EMC effect scales as the local nuclear density and not the average nuclear density. This result lead to the comparison of xB $>$ 1 short-range correlation plateaus to the magnitude of the EMC effect slope and a clear linear relation between the two effects has now been shown. In this talk, I will discuss the EMC effect and the short-range correlation plateaus and what the phenomenological relationship between the two implies about the cause of the EMC effect.