Is the earth expanding?

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  1. wlminex Banned Banned

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    . . .Yeah . . . that's the way of geologic processes over geologic time . . . they (processes) build stuff up . . . then break stuff apart . . . such is the constant antagonism between heat and gravity!!
     
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  3. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    That region reminds me a log jam (of continental and ocean plate pieces, all jambed together . Which does suggest massive flow toward that location.
     
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  5. florian Debunking machine Registered Senior Member

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    Yes, these extrusions are the results of massive mantle upwellings along the east asian margin. These upwellings emerge at the surface and spread. It's popping out everywhere in the area, eventually tearing apart the continental margin, and encroaching on the old pacific lithosphere (>120 My).
     
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  7. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    How do you get that isolated section of old ocean floor in the middle of the pacific? (latitude 10 - 20 degree North)

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  8. florian Debunking machine Registered Senior Member

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    By eduction. See Yu Chudinov.
     
  9. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    Does it consider decompression as a possible cause? I want to be educated on that aspect only.

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    Compression is the answer!
     
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  10. Trippy ALEA IACTA EST Staff Member

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    Well, that's one interpretation anyway.

    It's really not that odd, and it ties in nicely with some of the isochrons around Zelandia.
     
  11. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    Do you what this author is on about Trippy?

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  12. florian Debunking machine Registered Senior Member

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    Of course not. He's a geologist, and every geologist knows that everything in their field goes against that hypothesis.
     
  13. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    Well would I spend 300 bucks on a book that wouldn't help?

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  14. florian Debunking machine Registered Senior Member

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    300 bucks? Come on, I bought it for 30. Try abebooks it's available at $16 there:
     
  15. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    I have ordered that text, thanks for finding the link. I'm in NZ so it will take a while. Cheers
     
  16. Trippy ALEA IACTA EST Staff Member

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    How supercontinents are born

     
  17. florian Debunking machine Registered Senior Member

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    Oh yeah, I read that piece of crap in Nature. Someone has to tell them that there is the Mid Atlantic Ridge spreading in the arctic, which, far from getting extinct, is now propagating in eastern Russia.

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  18. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    Is that the thin line going through Siberia? That won't split there. I'd say there is too much back-pressure transmitted via North America.
     
  19. florian Debunking machine Registered Senior Member

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    What you call a "thin line" is the Laptev rift.
     
  20. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    What does Wiki say?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptev_Sea_Rift
    The Laptev Sea Rift is a divergent tectonic plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate located on the Arctic Ocean coast of northeastern Siberia in Russia. The Laptev Sea Rift is the continuation of the Gakkel Ridge (Mid-Arctic Ridge) into the continental crust of Siberia. It starts offshore in the continental shelf and continues onshore to a point located in the Chersky Range where the boundary motion changes from extension to compression.

    So there is a compression (back-pressure) rather that extension.

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  21. florian Debunking machine Registered Senior Member

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    "The Laptev Sea Rift is a divergent tectonic plate boundary"
     
  22. Trippy ALEA IACTA EST Staff Member

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    Pay special attention to where the merger is predicted to happen:

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  23. florian Debunking machine Registered Senior Member

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    The rift is a divergent boundary, that compression is not part of the rift.

    I've seen this one already and it is ludicrous. They predict that Kamtchatka will close the arctic oceans while it has done exactly the opposite for eons.

    Let computers modeling guys that don't know shit about geology and this is what you get. Actually, I'm not surprised that you swallow that bullshit.
     

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