Mr. Whatever asked:
"Whatever, Yep, it does sound absurd,
this is why I'm interested if they
have profile dated the entire basalt
ocean floor, if all dates the same
age, not getting progressively older,
then the lava outpoured
Actually, this was done for transects across different ocean basins during the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) with ocean floor cores collected by the Glomar Challenger. Dating of the samples of ocean floor recovered show that, not only are the sample of the ocean floor of greatly different age, but become systematically older in age away from mid-oceanic ridges. Basic information about past and on-going deep sea research programs can be found at;
Geographyhttp://www.gso.uri.edu/...k_Issues/97Summer/Text/story4.html
There is a lot of data about the sea floor, which Walt Brown completely ignores and deliberately refuses to incorporate into his ideas.
Also, the age of the Hawaiian islands show that the ocean crust is not the same age everywhere. Go look through "Rates of Plate Movement During the Phanerozoic" at:
http://www.geocities.com/earthhistory/plate2.htm
"What do the Hawaiian Islands/Emporer
Seamounts tell us about the motion of
the Pacific plate during the time in
which they formed? In the graph below
(from Clague and Dalrymple, 1987),
radiometric ages of the Hawaii
islands/Emporer Seamounts are plotted
against distance from the Hawaiian
hotspot. There is a very clear
correlation between these two variables.
In this case, the relationship between
age and distance indicates an average
rate of about 8.0 cm/yr northwest
displacement of the Pacific plate."
The figure can be seen at:
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/volc_age.gif
Also,"The Formation of the Hawaiian Islands" at:
Hawaii Center for Volcanology | Formation of the Hawaiian Islands
Some other related pages are:
1. Sea-floor Spreading and the Age of the Earth
http://www.geocities.com/earthhistory/CT.htm
2. THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEANS
THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEANS
3. Getting the Drift, by Michael Creech (the Skeptic, Vol 14:4 p.22) at:
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Yours,
Bill Birkeland
[This message has been edited by Bill Birkeland, 12-23-2003]
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