TrueCreation
Registered Senior Member
--This is an article I have been working on. For those knowledgable in geophysics/geodynamics and heat transfer, a review of my article would be well appreciated. Given that it is an article on Catastrophic Plate Tectonics and Runaway Subduction, I guess I expect harsh critisism. Don't care as long as it carries with it examples of objective inconsistencies in my article--unfounded criticism will probably be ignored anyways.
--Have fun!
Ocean Floor Bathymetry and Plate Cooling during Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
<i>Abstract
In this paper I illustrate in sufficient detail some of the current successes of Catastrophic Plate Tectonics theory and, with much more emphasis, the inconsistencies which must be resolved in the future.
I explain that the function of heat transfer and lithospheric plate cooling is among the largest of inconsistencies in current models for catastrophic plate tectonics which requires a solution. I provide fundamental incite on the relevance of heat transfer through the oceanic lithosphere on resultant ocean floor bathymetry. We begin by addressing the geophysical process of lithospheric cooling for oceanic plates and show that isostasy is the most influential factor in determining the topography of the new oceanic lithosphere. I will also show that isostatic induced bathymetry has a direct correlation with models for plate cooling and heat transfer of the newly formed oceanic lithosphere. In comparing mainstream models for plate cooling with the data we note that uniformitarian geophysics accurately predicts bathymetry.
Next I discuss the initiation of runaway subduction and suggest that the onset of accelerated radioisotopic decay is a very plausible mechanistic trigger for catastrophic plate tectonics. Horstemeyer and Baumgardner and have made other suggestions for the initiation though I maintain that such an acceleration of nuclear decay is still tenable. Venusian data suggest that Venus has gone through a global resurfacing event which can be shown to be of brief duration. My inferential conclusions of the data lends support for a universally correlated mechanism and that it was not a terrestrial event.
Thereafter, I discuss the consequences of attributing the appearance of age in the geologic record to an acceleration in radioisotopic decay with details from the effects on the mean surface heat flux from mantle radioisotopes. I show that this is the most problematic consequence of using it as the mechanism for radioisotopic distribution in the geologic record. Seeing that it is likely to be the only explanation for this appearance of age, we must find a solution in the future if we are to ever forward catastrophic plate tectonics as a plausible alternative to mainstream geophysics.
Lastly I return to ocean floor bathymetry and its direct correlative consequence on eustasy according to varying rates of heat transfer and models for plate cooling. It is possible that research inquiries into shock hydrodynamics are promising to provide the solution to our inconsistencies with the implications for current tranquil models for heat transfer.</i>
http://www.promisoft.100megsdns.com/OYSI/Articles/Draft/heattransfer2.htm
--Comments and suggestions are welcome. Keep in mind it is currently in a draft phase.
Cheers,
-Chris Grose
Geoscience Editor
Organization for Young Scientists Inquiry
http://www.oysi.promisoft.net
--Have fun!
Ocean Floor Bathymetry and Plate Cooling during Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
<i>Abstract
In this paper I illustrate in sufficient detail some of the current successes of Catastrophic Plate Tectonics theory and, with much more emphasis, the inconsistencies which must be resolved in the future.
I explain that the function of heat transfer and lithospheric plate cooling is among the largest of inconsistencies in current models for catastrophic plate tectonics which requires a solution. I provide fundamental incite on the relevance of heat transfer through the oceanic lithosphere on resultant ocean floor bathymetry. We begin by addressing the geophysical process of lithospheric cooling for oceanic plates and show that isostasy is the most influential factor in determining the topography of the new oceanic lithosphere. I will also show that isostatic induced bathymetry has a direct correlation with models for plate cooling and heat transfer of the newly formed oceanic lithosphere. In comparing mainstream models for plate cooling with the data we note that uniformitarian geophysics accurately predicts bathymetry.
Next I discuss the initiation of runaway subduction and suggest that the onset of accelerated radioisotopic decay is a very plausible mechanistic trigger for catastrophic plate tectonics. Horstemeyer and Baumgardner and have made other suggestions for the initiation though I maintain that such an acceleration of nuclear decay is still tenable. Venusian data suggest that Venus has gone through a global resurfacing event which can be shown to be of brief duration. My inferential conclusions of the data lends support for a universally correlated mechanism and that it was not a terrestrial event.
Thereafter, I discuss the consequences of attributing the appearance of age in the geologic record to an acceleration in radioisotopic decay with details from the effects on the mean surface heat flux from mantle radioisotopes. I show that this is the most problematic consequence of using it as the mechanism for radioisotopic distribution in the geologic record. Seeing that it is likely to be the only explanation for this appearance of age, we must find a solution in the future if we are to ever forward catastrophic plate tectonics as a plausible alternative to mainstream geophysics.
Lastly I return to ocean floor bathymetry and its direct correlative consequence on eustasy according to varying rates of heat transfer and models for plate cooling. It is possible that research inquiries into shock hydrodynamics are promising to provide the solution to our inconsistencies with the implications for current tranquil models for heat transfer.</i>
http://www.promisoft.100megsdns.com/OYSI/Articles/Draft/heattransfer2.htm
--Comments and suggestions are welcome. Keep in mind it is currently in a draft phase.
Cheers,
-Chris Grose
Geoscience Editor
Organization for Young Scientists Inquiry
http://www.oysi.promisoft.net