* I suggested initially in this thread that the breakup of the supercontinent occurred about 2300 BC at about the time of the Great Flood. Today's TPOD http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/2009/arch ... 8dots2.htm suggests that the planets were aligned all in the same sign of the zodiac around 3100 BC. It'll be interesting to see if either or both of those dates pan out.
Joe Keenan
Re: Breakthrough on How Continents Divided
If the top of South America traveled 3200 miles in 26 hours this means in was moving at an average of 150 MPH!
If the bottom of South America traveled 4100 miles in 26 hours this means in was moving at an average of 170 MPH!
In reality top speed was much higher, there must of been a long time accelerating and decelerating, so..... the American continent sped across the world at 350 - 400 miles an hour?
Pretty hard to believe!
Lloyd
Re: Breakthrough on How Continents Divided
* If you go to the first parts of this thread, we discussed it in more detail. But the site itself has good explanations for how it was possible to have such high speed: http://newgeology.us . The "impact" would have imparted the velocity to each piece of the supercontinent. The Mojo layer under the continents has been proposed to be plasma, which would provide a nearly frictionless surface on which to ride. The pieces may have ridden on a shock wave, like a surfer on an ocean wave. Also, the pieces [my own idea just now] may have been like magnets repelling each other initially. Think of a piece of ice sliding across a smooth ice-covered lake. Once the piece is thrown at high speed, there's so little friction that it slides a long way. We discussed this earlier here.
Lloyd
Re: Breakthrough on How Continents Divided
* Continental Sliding before or after the Great Flood; that is the question. * Initially I suggested on this thread that the supercontinent broke apart and the continents slid to their present positions in a day or so, but there were no oceans until after the flood. Electrical forces via megalightning broke the supercontinent apart and electrical repulsive forces in the Mojo plasma layer under the continents allowed the continents to slide with very little friction. Then electrical forces carved out the sides and tops of the continents to form canyons, mountains etc. Then the plasma column at the North Pole collapsed and released the waters of the Great Flood, which laid down sediment rocks over much of the Earth. * But I just happened to think moments ago that, if that were true, there should be lots of sedimentary rock strata on the ocean floors, just like there are on the continents. But there's almost no sedimentary rocks there. So it seems that perhaps the Great Flood occurred before the ocean basins were formed. * This complicates things a little too much for me to ponder clearly for now. Hopefully, I or anyone else will come up with a complete picture. Or has Cardona already done so?
The new study, published in the latest issue of Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the highly active volcanic boundaries along the edges of tectonic ocean plates may suddenly break apart in large sections, instead of little by little as has been predominantly believed.
katesisco
Re: Breakthrough on How Continents Divided
So good to see this site discussed; have you noticed that Mike plainly shows the OLD FRACTURE currently being overrun by NA? Count the mid-ocean ridge zone as the NEW FRACTURE. You may recall that Ice Ball Earth proposed several ancient ice ball earths, with the coming together with the continental masses on the equator. The author of Ice Ball earth says the reason why Pangea did not make earth into an ice ball is that it broke apart too rapidly to make the earth into the ice ball. Well, look where it came from: riven off of the eastern side of Japan/Russia/Asia and whooshed across the sea to arrive at the rest of the land mass but on the western side. Amazing. And then, before it had time to form the prerequisite ice ball, whoosh, back it went, only half way. Both oceans young. What in the world could have caused this enormous expenditure of energy?
Two choices: Earth has a nuclear engine which over heated, twice, in rapid succession, causing an expansion event ala S W Carrey. The Earth spewed twice an ionizing radiation event of unknown cause, resulting in expansion. Japanese scientists have just published Dec 2009 that the old sea (Tethys) closed up 250 mya, just when the Atlantic dates from. Has anybody read Earth, Univrse, Cosmos by S W Carey. Hard to get.
I adhere to the theory that we are the previous intelligent life mentioned in mythology. Much degraded. Almost impossible but one suspects scientists are trying hard to reverse engineer something like the Boskop fossil. Who knows? Mother Nature keeps everything in her junk DNA and never throws anything away.
Consider: where did salt domes miles deep come from? The oceans would have had to dried almost completely. Hidden under the last remaining water, very salty water, would have been the organic life and Viola!! there it is, under the salt, only we call it oil.
webolife
Re: Breakthrough on How Continents Divided
Could a salt dome be drawn electrically [from salty solution] by some massive discharge phenomenon, without the evaporation of the local ocean?
moses
Re: Breakthrough on How Continents Divided
webolife wrote: Could a salt dome be drawn electrically [from salty solution] by some massive discharge phenomenon, without the evaporation of the local ocean?
Desalination ++ if it could be done. Mo
Lloyd
Re: Breakthrough on How Continents Divided
Could a salt dome be drawn electrically [from salty solution] by some massive discharge phenomenon, without the evaporation of the local ocean?
* Evaporated oceans fits Cardona's model, in which the ocean waters were taken up into the north polar plasma column long ago, then released when the column broke up maybe 5,000 years ago, causing the Great Flood. I'm not sure if it fits Shock Dynamics, i.e. the theory of an impactor breaking up a former supercontinent. * How deep are the salt domes? I know Kansas has thick salt deposits underground. In doing a brief net search on salt domes, it looks like they tend to occur on land or in shallow ocean, like the Gulf of Mexico. If they occur in the deep ocean, it would be evidence against recent formation of the ocean basins, unless they can be formed electrically, as you question.
