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Peter Member (Idle past 1807 days) Posts: 2161 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Joined: |
Someone, somewhere has probably already put forward
an answer to this ... but I just wondered ... if the whole Earth was covered by water, so that there was NO land ... where did all the water go ? Is there enough water in the ice caps to cover ALL land... I'm asking genuinely here not trying to make a point of any kind ... I'd just like to know.
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Tranquility Base Inactive Member |
In the YEC flood model plate tectonic events instigated the flood, set the continents moving, generated much of the mountain ranges and caused the cessation of the flood.
The scenario is of course designed to match mainstream observations. Before the flood the mountains were much lower so the water in the oceans/ice-caps today would have been sufficient. It is evident from mainstream science that most of the land surface of the earth (if not all of it) has been underwater! The geological column on land is primarily marine! So we explain the coming and goings of the waters the same way you do. We just claim it happened much, much more quickly than you giuys predict. In detail neither mainstream or flood geolgoists have the complete answer but it is essentially due to the plate movings and sea-floor spreading that changed the ocean basin sizes etc and the continental plate heights. [This message has been edited by Tranquility Base, 07-05-2002]
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edge Member (Idle past 2034 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
quote: Hmm, I wonder why we see mountain ranges in various stages of erosion if they all occurred 4000 years ago. Care to address this? I also would like to know about mounatain ranges that have evidence of several stages of orogeny followed by nearly complete erosion. How could this happen in 4000 years without us noticing?
quote: Well, some of them anyway. The rest you have to ignore.
quote: You make a rather matter-of-fact assertion here. Do you have any evidence for this? It would seem that the presence of eroded moutain ranges would militate against this hypothesis. What about the terrestrial volcanos in the geological record? Were they all flat before the flood? I have asked you this before and never received an answer.
quote: But there is absolutely no evidence that it has all been underwater at one time.
quote: And geologists have never noticed this before TB came along. I am not sure what the significance of this observation is.
quote: You just haven't got a clue as to how much water there was, where it came from or where it went.
quote: Yes, you just have to suspend your credulity an wish really hard.
quote: You are a fine one to even mention details considering that you have ignored most of them. I think I'll stay with the mainstream answer.
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Joe Meert Member (Idle past 6008 days) Posts: 913 From: Gainesville Joined: |
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John Inactive Member |
quote: So where was the water which flooded the world duu to techtonic events?
quote: Wouldn't you not only have to flatten the mountains, but the continents as well? There is a lot of water in that ice but it wouldn't flood the entire planet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/scienceshack/backcat/experiments/mafloatingice.shtml Here is an interesting one--- evidence suggesting that the cap has already lost 40% of its volume. That should be good for a good flood eh?
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/11/17/fp2s1-csm.shtml All in all, the best rise I found was twenty feet due to Antartic ice melting.
http://whyfiles.org/091beach/5.html So I say again, you'd have to squish the continents too. But then everything would be under water UNTIL the flood.... wait, that'snot right either.... Where is the dry land?
quote: Yeah, no kidding. Ever heard of the mid-ocean ridges? ------------------
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TrueCreation Inactive Member |
"Yeah, no kidding. Ever heard of the mid-ocean ridges?"
--Mid-ocean ridge basalt is relatively new, and current sedimentary transport all the way over there is unmeasurable. Why would that be considered a piece of the Geologic column John? ------------------ ![]()
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John Inactive Member |
quote: TC, this is basic plate tectonics. New crust bubbles up at the ridges, older crust gets pushed away. Eventually that crust crashes into another bit of crust and goes either up or down. If it goes up it carries with it millions of years of ocean floor. Hence, most of the land mass on Earth has been underwater. This layer will appear in the geologic record. ------------------
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Joe Meert Member (Idle past 6008 days) Posts: 913 From: Gainesville Joined: |
quote: JM: Actually, this is technically incorrect. Oceanic crust is compositionally different from continental. Most of the continental oceanic deposits were due to sea-level changes which caused inundation of the lower lying areas of the continent. Ask people in Terrebone Parish Louisiana! When two continents collide some of the oceanic material may get trapped between them and pushed up. For example, near the top of Mt. Everest is a limestone bed from the Tethyan Ocean. However, most material that is deposited on the ocean floor is subducted back into the mantle. Cheers Joe MEert
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John Inactive Member |
quote: Interesting. What then is the origin of the primary continental crust(s)? I mean, if you have a minute or two... Take care. ------------------
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Andor Inactive Member |
quote: Possibly. But not all at the same time! TB, The Sierra de Guadarrama (50Km NW Madrid), is of Precambrian and Cambrian materials uplifted in the Hercynian orogeny. Since then, it has never again been covered by sea waters. It was fully eroded and lifted again in the Alpine orogeny. Now it is a crystalline mass, with its higher peak 2.400m. (Mt. Penalara): Gneiss, slate, quartzite, and intrusive granitic plutons.
quote: All the perforations NW Madrid to the crystalline block, give the same result: unconsolidated argillaceous material, of continental origin, derived from erosion of Sierra de Guadarrama mountains.
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gene90 Member (Idle past 4151 days) Posts: 1610 Joined: |
[QUOTE][b]However, most material that is deposited on the ocean floor is subducted back into the mantle.[/QUOTE]
[/b] Aren't there pockets of it in North America?
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TrueCreation Inactive Member |
"Interesting. What then is the origin of the primary continental crust(s)? I mean, if you have a minute or two..."
--I think Meert gave the necessary information I would have given in that last bit. Conventional theory in the mainstream (Which I agree in a YECists scenario) is by chemical fractionation of incompatible elements (majority being lithophilic & atmophilic(?)) in the early stages of the earths formation as the hot mantle convected. Thats pretty much how it goes, Dr. Meert could give you more but I'll just leave it with a recommendation that he gave to me a bit ago for a good reading. Geodynamics: Turcotte & Schubert - Second Edition. The text-book's last chapter is a nice segment on some of the basics of Geochemistry. ------------------ ![]() [This message has been edited by TrueCreation, 07-06-2002]
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TrueCreation Inactive Member |
"Aren't there pockets of it in North America? "
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gene90 Member (Idle past 4151 days) Posts: 1610 Joined: |
There is, of course, a geological term. But I forgot it.
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TrueCreation Inactive Member |
From the context of the conversation, the only thing I can think of is Accreted sediment from decending lithosphere during subduction. But if mind serves me right, the only subduction zone near the North American Plate is the trench directly above South America. Forgot what that one was called.
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