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Robert on Collaboration
By: Admin Date: May 13, 2017, 3:00 pm
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Re Robert's TB thread: Catastrophist Geology
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Hi Robert.
Thanks for interest in collaboration.
Except for the last few pages of my thread on Evidence of
Ancient Global Cataclysms, I copied and reorganized nearly all
of the posts on a private forum of my own at
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. They're mixed in with other
material from other sources. And they're mostly in the sections
called LK1 to LK4. I started writing a paper in section LK1 at
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/1-10/1-71
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. So that and the other
LK sections and the Sources & Outline section cover most of the
discussions and evidence. Also the Mike Messages and XX First
Draft sections cover additional or reorganized material.
The CNPS section is the most recent and involves discussing
Catastrophism on the CNPS forum in an effort to use the
discussion with scientists, pros and laymen, to write a paper
for the CNPS Wiki for Alternative Science.
This recent post at my Thunderbolts thread above has my Letter
to the Editor of NCGT Journal at
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. The letter discusses reasoning that most of the sedimentary
strata must have been deposited over a short time span by
megatsunamis not many millennia ago.
I favor Charles Chandler's EU model instead of the Thunderbolts
team's model. His model is much more thorough and well-reasoned.
It's at
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. He found
that stars etc likely form from electrical recombination after
ionization-caused charge separation, via implosions that produce
mainly current-free electric double layers within stars, planets
etc. So stars etc are storage batteries that slowly lose charge,
instead of being loads on a circuit as in Thornhill's model,
which lacks electric generators for the circuits.
Impacts are bolide collisions, not just electric discharges. But
the bolides are highly charged and can cause E.D.'s etc. Tidal
forces are also electrical. Both impacts and tidal forces caused
megatsunamis, which produced the sedimentary rock strata. The
Phanerozoic may have some fossils, e.g. pollen, I think. It may
lack most fossils because the sediments may have formed before
there was much life on Earth.
If you have counter-evidence for any of this, I'm always open to
it and want to know about it.
Are you ready to discuss collaboration?
G'Day
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Re: Robert on Collaboration
By: Admin Date: May 15, 2017, 11:30 pm
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Hello Lloyd,
I had a quick look at the Natural Philosophy website, it looks
familiar and I recognised some of the authors, I may have
visited it in the past, if I did then it may have had a revamp
since then?
Ok, let’s get down to business, what do we agree on? I’ll put
down a few brief points as a taste of where my research has led
me.
The Universe: the universe is infinite and eternal; I favour the
plasma model proposed by Alfven, Peratt, Lerner et al.
Redshift: not too sure if I agree with the Thunderbolts project
people on this one as they tend to promote Halton Arp’s
hypothesis, I read Halton Arp’s work some time ago, he did raise
some valid points but in a plasma universe redshift could very
well be explained by the Wolf Effect.
A simple description of the universe may be: as the size of the
universe approaches infinity the energy/ matter density
approaches zero- as the size of the universe approaches zero the
energy/ matter density approaches infinity.
Stars: stars are powered externally- connected to their
environments as suggested by Birkeland and later proposed by
Juergens and Milton and more recently Scott and Thornhill.
Saturn Hypothesis: The Thunderbolts project people put a lot of
energy into this one- I’m undecided. I have my own alternative-
the Sun was formerly a Red-Giant star.
Age of the Earth: how can you attribute an age to the Earth by
dating a meteorite? The Earth may very well be much older than
currently assumed.
Plate and Expansion tectonics: neither is correct- I agree with
the stance taken by former Soviet geologists, I think I’ve made
that obvious in my Thunderbolts thread. The Earth is old but
many of its surface features are recent.
Origin of Life: again not too sure on this one as there have
been a few interesting ‘Electricity of Life’ videos posted that
have caused a rethink in my position. An easy way out would be
that in an infinite and eternal universe life has always
existed!
Evolution vs. Speciation: I’m with the Creationists on this one
(I’m not a creationist). While we have evidence of evolution
i.e. selection- we have no examples of speciation. The exact
speciation process may no longer function correctly today,
controversial scientist Peter Duesberg has suggested that cancer
is a form of speciation. If so perhaps the process has gone
terribly wrong in Earth’s new environment (see below).
A global cataclysm occurred: In my view for much of its history
Earth was a very different place a large low-relief hemispheric
‘continent’ existed the other hemisphere was covered by water.
This arrangement led to very little erosion the hemispheric
dichotomy existed for billions of years. It was under this
hemispheric arrangement that life arose (?) and speciated
perhaps the actual speciation process was not for the squeamish,
we could think of the pre-cataclysm Earth as a planet of
mutants. When the cataclysm occurred ecosystems were largely
destroyed, remnants of the destroyed ecosystems were fossilised.
Survivors probably inhabited the deep interior of the
‘continental’ hemisphere.
Sedimentary strata: the Phanerozoic rock record was laid down
during a global cataclysm(s).
The Moon: the Moon was captured during the latter stages of the
cataclysm.
Consciousness: arises in the brain and is a process not a thing,
I favour the Theory of Neuronal Group Selection proposed by
Gerald M. Edelman.
Time: time is thermodynamic irreversibility.
If you can think of any other categories that you may wish to
discuss or collaborate on (if any!?) then let me know. I’ll take
a look at the CNPS forum as soon as I am able- it looks like you
have to register first.
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I didn't realize you've been posting on the TB forum since 2013.
Had I known that, I would have invited you to various
discussions I've been involved in since 2012 especially. I read
some of your early posts and the recent ones. You seem to be
well informed and you write professionally.
What's your background? I've studied catastrophism since 1969.
I'm 68 now. What about you? I noticed you mentioned Kronos, so I
guess you've read some or much of those issues. I still have all
of them, I believe. I also have all but one issue of Pensee'.
And I have a few issues of Aeon. And I've read the Thoth
e-newsletter. I read a few issues of Catastrophism and Ancient
History. I also read 4 of Velikovsky's books as well as
Talbott's The Saturn Myth and Cardona's God Star. And I like Ev
Cochrane's site at MaverickScience.com I think. Gary Gilligan
and John Ackerman also have some interesting ideas.
I think Talbott and Cardona make a good case for the Saturn
Theory, but it's hard to verify. I started gathering Evidence of
Ancient Global Cataclysms last year and I guess you read my
Letter to the Editor of NCGT Journal where I explained that
nearly the entire geologic column must have been deposited in a
short time span. The next step I want to take with that is
proving the inaccuracy of radiometric dating and the last step
would be explaining orogenesis. I'd like to see what you think
of
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. I've discussed that quite a bit on the
TB forum and I think it likely explains orogenesis much better
than anything else, including what you mentioned with Michael
"Starbiter".
Thanks for mentioning a lot of your views. If you want to know
which of them I disagree with, let me know. But I'm more
interested in pursuing the Catastrophism story. I think you have
helpful insights. I read a little of what you said about the KT
boundary.
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Robert's TB Posts
By: Admin Date: May 16, 2017, 10:50 am
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Re: Are Mountains the Result of a Duning Process?
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Lightning strikes causing rocks to explode have for the first
time been shown to play a huge role in shaping mountain
landscapes in southern Africa
My own view is that Earth’s mountains formed recently (within
the last 250,000 years?)during a planet shattering cataclysm. A
disruption of Earth's rotation resulted in repeated ocean surges
forming immense plateaus of sedimentary rock were the ocean
waters met pre-existing land areas. These plateaus were then
etched by huge electrical discharges leaving behind the typical
Lichtenberg morphology we see in many mountain ranges today.
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- I used the date of 250,000 years ago for the period of
mountain building as an upper limit. My preferred age would be
20,000 +/- 10,000 years ago. I base this on the convergence of
radiocarbon ages of ‘fossilised’ soft tissue from dinosaurs,
megafauna etc. which were preserved in the same cataclysmic
event that led to the formation of today’s mountain ranges. (I
realise that problems exist regarding carbon dating but it’s the
best I can do!)
- Whilst I have no problems with airborne material settling and
forming layers (from a later electrical event), the fossil
record primarily indicates a watery catastrophe. 95% of the
fossil record consists of marine invertebrates, 4.75% plants
[not including coal?], 0.24% insects and 0.01% fish, amphibians,
reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, mammals, basically everything else!
- In my scenario as Earth’s rotation was disrupted not only did
the ocean waters rush poleward but Coriolis forces led to
immense ocean gyres causing ‘sloshing’ (to borrow a term). Where
the flow was restricted by then existing landmasses, ranges such
as the Alps and Himalaya formed. The Rockies and Andes formed
due to the north-south orientation of the Americas acting as a
simple barrier to the waters of the proto-Pacific.
- At this stage only immense plateaus of folded sediment (were
we now find mountain ranges) existed and helped protect
continental interiors from further devastating inundations.
Electrical events now machined these plateaus forming the
typical Lichtenberg morphology (this would have been the time
when large amounts of airborne dust would have been present).
The Tibetan Plateau is a good example of this, with the Himalaya
to the south and Tian Shan to the north (perhaps the Taklimakan
Desert is a depository for some machined material?)
- To my mind, Paul E. Anderson has done excellent work
demonstrating the evidence for the electrical scarring of
Earth’s surface: likewise, your work on external granite and
basalt – again excellent. This is why I think the main erosive
agent would have electrical discharge rather than water and why
we find fossilised sea creatures in concretions (electrical
fossilisation?) in mountainous areas.
- I also think that Earth’s carbonate strata and salt deposits
are igneous in origin, that’s why we find carbonate in comets-
it was machined from the Earth! Where from exactly, I don’t know
but every time I look at the Pacific Ocean I wonder…
Re: Rock Strata Formation
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- Is the K-T Boundary Layer a Coal Seam?
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The information comes from ‘Creation of the Teton Landscape’ by
Love, Reed and Pierce 2007. An earlier online edition with
imperial as opposed to metric units can be found here:
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... If we look at the strata concerned in the Alaska Basin:
Flathead, Gros Ventre, Gallatin, Bighorn, Darby and Madison that
gives us a deposit of some 2,455 feet, newer estimates may have
been revised lower.
- According to the authors: ‘The regularity and parallel
relations of the layers in well-exposed sections such as the one
in Alaska Basin suggest that all these rocks were deposited in a
single uninterrupted sequence. ...
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- Did Limestone form catastrophically?
- ... Carbonatites are an unusual type of rock consisting of
greater than 50% carbonate minerals and have a global
distribution. The only active carbonatite volcano is Ol Doinyo
Lengai in Tanzania; the lavas of Ol Doinyo Lengai are rich in
the rare sodium and potassium carbonate minerals and are known
as Natrocarbonatites. Other forms include Ferrocarbonatite,
Calciocarbonatite and Magnesiocarbonatite.
- Carbonate rocks are not usually thought of as being igneous in
origin but the idea is not a new one.
From an article in Nature (142: 704-705, 1938) ‘Limestones as
Eruptive Rocks’, we read ‘…so early as 1892, some limestones
occurring in the form of dykes and cutting the volcanic rocks of
the Kaiserstuhl in Baden, were described by A. Knop, and three
years later A. G. Hogbom described limestone dykes in a region
of alkali-rich intrusive on the island of Alno in Sweden. Hogbom
also recorded calcite as a primary mineral in some rocks at
Alno, and there were other descriptions of primary calcite in
alkali-eruptive rocks from Canada and India.’ ...
- Could it be that the guyots and seamounts of the western
Pacific Ocean are all that remains of a former
carbonatite/carbonate platform; a platform that was easily
eroded by wave action during a cataclysm, the erosional products
of which were transported far to the east to be deposited on a
pre-existing landmass? Were Calciocarbonatites and
Magnesiocarbonatites eroded re-worked and deposited as limestone
and dolomite? If so, then perhaps limestone and dolomite should
be re-classified as ‘catastrophites’! ...
An Alternative to Plate and Expansion Tectonics
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Catastrophist Geology
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- ... Does the Western Interior Seaway Have a Catastrophic
Explanation?
- ... Creationist researcher Michael Oard in his book ‘Dinosaur
Challenges and Mysteries’ (see:
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/>introduces to the reader a hypothesis he calls BEDS (Briefly
Exposed Diluvial Sediments) which is required under the
creationist model to explain the strata and fossil distribution
found in this band running the length of North America.
- From another article (see:
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/>Oard writes, ‘There is another interpretation that also fits t
he
facts and that is the BEDS (Briefly Exposed Diluvial Sediments)
hypothesis…The BEDS model is based on the fact that the level of
the Floodwater would fluctuate up and down as it rose in the
first half of the Flood.
- ... John Baumgardner, ran computer models of a repeated near
Earth encounter by a planet/moon sized body. Regarding the
simulation he writes: ‘Although the water initially is at rest,
accelerations from the giant tidal perturbation quickly lead to
water velocities of 270 m/s (metres per second) and more, with
high levels of turbulence, intense cavitation erosion, and
sediment suspended and transported for thousands of kilometres,
as surges of water rush into the continent interior.
- ... The Phanerozoic rock record covering or partly covering
North America is comprised of six megasequences (megasequences
are discrete groups of sedimentary rock layers bounded top and
bottom by erosional surfaces, often with coarse sandstone layers
at the bottom, followed by shale, and then limestone at the
top),
- ... Experiments in stratification by Guy Berthault
- ... a. Superposed strata do not always result, according to
Steno’s beliefs, from successive layers of sediment;
consequently the principle of superposition does not always
apply to strata formed in a current;
b. Stratification formed parallel to a slope exceeding an angle
of 30°, can invalidate the principle of original horizontally.
Inclined strata are not necessarily, therefore, the result of
subsidence or uplift.’ ...
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- ... Whilst not all geological features require or necessitate
an electrical aspect, in my view an electric discharge was the
‘prime mover’ during a catastrophic period of earth history.
During this period both the characteristics of the Earth and its
environment changed, a change the Earth is, even today,
adjusting to- hence my thread ‘An Alternative to Plate and
Expansion Tectonics’.
- I agree with your comment regarding salt, salt is certainly an
igneous rock and I hope to post another contribution soon
looking at a role played by salt- quite obviously I view the
consensus geological explanation- vast dried up seas- with a
large slice of scepticism! Salt may also play an important
electrical role today something I touched on in ‘An Alternative
to Plate and Expansion Tectonics’ given the amount of brines
discovered by superdeep drilling projects- did conductive salt
magmas play an electrical role in a past cataclysm? ...
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Re: Robert on Collaboration
By: Admin Date: May 16, 2017, 7:44 pm
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017 4:57 PM
Hello Lloyd,
_Most of my career has been in electrical engineering, in
various industries here in the UK, apart from six years or so as
a train driver- I just tried my hand at doing something
different- but I’m back in engineering now.
_For as long as I can remember I have had an interest in
astronomy, earth science, prehistoric life etc. mostly self
taught. As you might expect this route to knowledge was
decidedly ‘mainstream’ shall we say? For example I subscribed to
the US journal ‘The Skeptical Inquirer’ published by the
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims Of the
Paranormal (CSICOP) for over twenty years- a group that was
highly critical of Velikovsky!
_For me doubts began to appear when I began questioning the
claims of Big Bang theoreticians- when they developed concepts
such as ‘baby universes’, ‘chaotic inflation’, ‘branes’ etc. the
whole enterprise of modern theoretical science had become
completely detached from reality. For about five years or so I
was in a kind of conceptual wilderness, I began researching
alternatives then by accident I came across the works of Alfven.
This was it! Now the universe made sense again- it was
electrical!
_From that revelation it was a series of intellectual ‘stepping
stones’ that led me to Velikovsky, Juergens, Thornhill, Scott et
al but initially I was sceptical until I was convinced that the
mainstream were wrong.
_I joined the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies in 2010, I’m
now 50 years old so I guess I’m a late comer to catastrophism,
but it was a natural progression for me, it is just so clear
that Earth has suffered a major cataclysm- I only have a few
print copies of Pensee, Kronos etc. most of the journals I read
are contained on a copy of the ‘Catastrophism’ CD I have
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_Lloyd, I will take your final point first, my views on the
nature of the KT boundary layer I’ve had for nearly twenty
years, at one time I intended to submit a paper to a scientific
publication but never got past the developmental stage- the
whole idea came to me following a brief discussion I had with
Thomas Gold that centred around his Deep Earth Gas hypothesis.
_With orogenesis the book to read on the subject is The Origin
of Mountains by Ollier and Pain
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_Mountains are not what people generally think- the authors make
it clear that mountains have formed regardless of the underlying
strata and/or bedrock. It is whole regions that have experienced
rapid uplift then depending on how much erosion has occurred
determines what we call the uplifted area- little erosion we
call a plateau- substantial erosion we would call a mountain
range. As the authors say ‘there are no fold mountains’.
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_So, from the above image the strata would have been deposited
and folded on a pre-existing flat surface. Later the surface was
uplifted and eroded leaving behind mountains. Ollier and Pain
are certainly not catastrophists but they do realise that during
a unique period in Earth history rapid uplift occurred (vertical
not lateral movements) - then stopped, nothing like it happened
before or has happened since.
_When I look at such images I picture immense waves depositing
freshly eroded sediment upon the surface of a pre-existing
continent, tidal surges folding the layers in the process. Later
certain areas were subject to electrical uplift if the discharge
was particularly severe then vast amounts of material were
electrically machined away leaving behind freshly cut mountains.
The ‘age’ of the strata is not an indicator of the age of the
mountain.
_I’m not a fan of really big impacts two suitably large bodies
would not collide but following an exchange of charge they would
be nudged into slightly different trajectories or one would
capture the other- to my mind there never was a moon forming
impact, that said the Shock Dynamics site does present the
arguments against Plate Tectonics well and I’m all for that.
_When it comes to radiometric dating then creationist scientists
have carried out extensive work in this field:
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_I am aware of only a few papers that have been published in
journals such as Ralph E. Juergens’ Radiohalos And Earth History
from Kronos Vol. III No. 1 (Fall 1977) and a couple of others in
SIS C&C Review are you aware of any others? Perhaps it is an
area catastrophists need to focus on more?
_In my view radiometric dating is highly questionable to the
point it may be meaningless, if the entire Phanerozoic rock
record was laid down during a cataclysm then what went before
has been almost completely demolished.
_I have attached a pdf file it is a paper by creationist
scientist John Baumgardner you may find it of interest.
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after 7:40PM
_Hi Robert. I'm pretty well aware of CSICOP and its biases,
hypocrisy and pseudoskepticism.
_RADIOMETRIC DATING
_I collected most of my info on radiometric dating at
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_The best evidence there is at
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where there's this
quote from Walter Brown's online book.
"Beta decay rates can increase dramatically when atoms are
stripped of all their electrons. In 1999, Germany’s Dr. Fritz
Bosch showed that, for the rhenium atom, this decreases its
half-life more than a billionfold — from 42 billion years to 33
years.17 The more electrons removed, the more rapidly neutrons
expel electrons (beta decay) and become protons. This effect was
previously unknown, because only electrically neutral atoms had
been used in measuring half-lives.18"
_In his paper on Light Curves at
HTML http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=18943
Charles calculated that the Sun
and presumably the solar system are under 380 million years old
and that radiometric dating ignores some facts. At
HTML http://funday.createaforum.com/2-11/increased-decay-rate
I
asked: Charles, is it very certain that temperature increases
the decay rate of radioactive elements?
Charles replied: Quite certain. For example, in nuclear power
plants, all they have to do in order to get net power output is
to heat the uranium above the critical temperature, at which the
radioactive decay rate produces enough heat to force the same
amount of decay, which of course sustains the heat. Past that
point, if they don't extract the heat from the core, it will go
into runaway mode, resulting in a melt-down. So yes, the decay
rate increases with temperature.
_ELECTRIC UNIVERSE
_You said: "I’m not a fan of really big impacts two suitably
large bodies would not collide but following an exchange of
charge they would be nudged into slightly different trajectories
or one would capture the other- to my mind there never was a
moon forming impact, that said the Shock Dynamics site does
present the arguments against Plate Tectonics well and I’m all
for that."
_Since you're an electrical engineer, would you be willing to
have a friendly debate about the Electric Universe on the
Thunderbolts forum? I tried to organize a debate there about 3
years ago, but couldn't get any more knowledgeable EU
proponents, like Thornhill, Scott et al, to get involved.
Charles was willing at that time, but no one else was, to speak
of. Someone called Aristarchus debated him briefly, but didn't
debate well.
_You're saying that large impacts aren't possible because
like-charged bodies repel. That's one of the things I'd like to
debate and several other issues too.
_CATASTROPHISM DATA
_What do you think is the best data in support of catastrophism
and against uniformitarianism? I'd like to collect such data on
the CNPS forum in preparation for a CNPS Wiki paper. And thanks
for the article from Baumgardner. I have a lot of info from
another paper by him on Noah's Flood.
---
Thursday, May 18, 2017 6:09 PM
<Robert
_I am currently overseeing some building work taking place at my
home so I haven't had as much time as I would like to discuss
the matters at hand.
_I have been working my way through the links you sent me when I
am able and I've done some digging around- are you familiar with
the article by Ralph Juergens "Radiohalos and Earth History"?
I've attached a copy for your attention- if you are familiar
with the article then just delete the attachment.
_I have briefly looked at Walt Brown's thesis, unusually we have
a creationist who acknowledges that electricity has played a
part in a global cataclysm, that said I favour Juergens’
hypothesis the cause being an external discharge rather than an
internal one as suggested by Brown.
_An excellent non-creationist paper on the subject of
radiometric dating is by David Salkeld printed in SIS C&C Review
2003 “Scientific Dating Problems the Radiometric Dating of
Earth’s Rocks”- have you read this paper? If not I have scanned
a copy which I could send as an attachment- but it would be in
the form of jpeg images, just let me know.
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Re: Robert on Collaboration
By: Admin Date: May 23, 2017, 9:31 am
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5/16 8:08 PM
_Hi Mike. I found a catastrophist who's willing to collaborate,
named Robert, though he's not yet impressed with Shock Dynamics.
You're much more knowledgeable on geology than I am. Can you
provide a good counter-argument to his statements on orogenesis
that follow? He says they formed by vertical uplift, rather than
by horizontal folding, but it seems to me that the uplift was
surely due to the horizontal compression. Right? If so, what's
the best proof/s? Thanks for any help.
_He said as follows:
_With orogenesis the book to read on the subject is The Origin
of Mountains by Ollier and Pain
HTML https://www.amazon.co.uk/Origin-Mountains-Cliff-Ollier/dp/0415198909
_Mountains are not what people generally think- the authors make
it clear that mountains have formed regardless of the underlying
strata and/or bedrock. It is whole regions that have experienced
rapid uplift then depending on how much erosion has occurred
determines what we call the uplifted area- little erosion we
call a plateau- substantial erosion we would call a mountain
range. As the authors say ‘there are no fold mountains’.
HTML https://preachrr.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/foldedlayers.jpg
_So, from the above image the strata would have been deposited
and folded on a pre-existing flat surface. Later the surface was
uplifted and eroded leaving behind mountains. Ollier and Pain
are certainly not catastrophists but they do realise that during
a unique period in Earth history rapid uplift occurred (vertical
not lateral movements) - then stopped, nothing like it happened
before or has happened since.
---
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 8:44 PM
_Re Orogeny
_Hi Lloyd,
_In the days before Plate Tectonics took over geology, the idea
of stasis was pervasive. There was just uplift and subsidence.
I am surprised that anyone still holds to that notion as a
catastrophist; quite odd. One of the few significant mountain
ranges raised by simple uplift is the Transantarctic Mountains.
But as veteran orogeny specialist Peter Molnar wrote,
_"Virtually all major mountain ranges in the world are a
consequence of crustal shortening."
Some Simple Physical Aspects of the Support, Structure, and
Evolution of Mountain Belts. Peter Molnar, H. Lyon-Caen.
Special Paper 218, Geological Society of America, 1988, pp.
179-207.
_Ollier and Pain are rightly heralded by catastrophists for
writing "Uplift occurred over a relatively short and distinct
time. Some earth process switched on and created mountains
after a period with little or no significant uplift. This is a
deviation from uniformitarianism." (The Origin of Mountains.
Cliff Ollier, Colin Pain. 2000. Routledge, London. p. 303.)
_Nevertheless, as old-school Australian geomorphologists they
are sympathetic to the vertical tectonics they grew up with.
_Regarding the building of the Himalayas, "Convergence between
the Indian and Eurasian plates is estimated to be at least
1000-1400 km or as much as 2000-3000 km." (Li, Chang, Robert D.
van der Hilst, Anne S. Meltzer, E. Robert Engdahl. 2008.
Subduction of the Indian lithosphere beneath the Tibetan Plateau
and Burma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 274, pp.
157-168.)
_In other words, the collision of India with Asia shortened the
two landmasses by a total of 1000 to 3000 km, folding mountains
and raising the Tibetan Plateau.
_An observation from a specialist in Appalachian mountain
geology is old but unambiguous: "the evidence of intense
shortening perpendicular to the length of the chain, not only in
the folded marginal belts but also in the central core belt, is
too clear for me to doubt that there was not only confining but
directed pressure, the greatest compressive stress being
consistently directed roughly horizontally across the orogenic
belt." (Rodgers, John. 1970. The Tectonics of the Appalachians.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. p. 224.)
_I could go on and on. Someone who dismisses compressional
orogeny and clings to vertical tectonics will no doubt be
unimpressed by Shock Dynamics geology, but I suspect they are
not operating with an open mind.
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Re: Robert on Collaboration
By: Admin Date: May 23, 2017, 11:23 am
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5/23 11:20 AM
Hi Robert.
_How often do you have time for discussion? Once or more a week?
_On the CNPS forum at
HTML http://forums.naturalphilosophy.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=127
I
just started a working paper on Impact-Flood Catastrophism.
Here's what I have so far.
_IMPACT-FLOOD CATASTROPHISM
_ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS & DEFINITIONS
Planetoid: any rocky body in outer space: i.e. meteor, comet,
asteroid, moon, rocky planet
Recent Planetoidal Near-Collision/s: planetoid/s coming close
enough to Earth to raise high tides
Megatides/Megatsunamis: tides/tsunamis high enough to deposit
sedimentary rock strata
Impacts: fall of planetoids on Earth's surface
Megasequence: conforming strata between unconforming strata
Megasequences Deposition: deposition of conforming strata
Supercontinent: large continent composed of smaller continents
Supercontinent Breakup: breakup of a supercontinent into smaller
continents due to impact/s
Impact Orogeny: mountain uplift caused by continent breakup
Impact Volcanism: volcanic eruptions caused by
Radiometric Dating: using radioactive decay in rock to estimate
the time it formed
Radiometric Dating Errors: errors in estimating ages of rock due
to changing decay rates
Gradualism: the theory that large-scale geological features
change very gradually, not rapidly
Gradualism Errors: overlooking the fact that large-scale
cataclysms can cause rapid geological changes
Fossilization: formation of fossils during strata deposition
Atmosphere Shrinkage: shrinkage of the atmosphere due to rapid
losses to space
Gigantism: tendency of plants and animals to grow to giant size
End of Gigantism: loss of conditions favoring gigantism
Ice Age: time of widespread glaciation
Ancient Myths: ancient anthropomorphic reports about celestial
conditions before, during and after cataclysms
Advanced Ancient Civilization: high tech civilization in ancient
times, destroyed by cataclysms
_I expect that you disagree about some of those. So I'd like to
discuss our disagreements on the TB forum? Are you willing to do
that? I think that would help a lot to clear up differences.
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Re: Robert on Collaboration
By: Admin Date: June 29, 2017, 11:16 pm
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Subject: Catastrophism
Tue, May 23, 2017 12:30 pm
To: <mike@newgeology.us>
_Thanks a lot for the quotes you gave me about crustal
shortening etc.
_I asked Robert to discuss our disagreements on catastrophism,
because I think it would settle our differences.
_I also started a paper on Impact-Flood Catastrophism on the
CNPS forum at
HTML http://forums.naturalphilosophy.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=127
_Here's what I wrote. Do you suggest any corrections or
additions to the list?
_IMPACT-FLOOD CATASTROPHISM: ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS & DEFINITIONS
_Planetoid: any rocky body in outer space: i.e. meteor, comet,
asteroid, moon, rocky planet
_Recent Planetoidal Near-Collision/s: planetoid/s coming close
enough to Earth to raise high tides
_Megatides/Megatsunamis: tides/tsunamis high enough to deposit
sedimentary rock strata
_Impacts: fall of planetoids on Earth's surface
_Megasequence: conforming strata between unconforming strata
_Megasequences Deposition: deposition of conforming strata
_Supercontinent: large continent composed of smaller continents
_Supercontinent Breakup: breakup of a supercontinent into
smaller continents due to impact/s
_Impact Orogeny: mountain uplift caused by continent breakup
_Impact Volcanism: volcanic eruptions caused by impacts
_Radiometric Dating: using radioactive decay in rock to estimate
the time it formed
_Radiometric Dating Errors: errors in estimating ages of rock
due to changing decay rates
_Gradualism: the theory that large-scale geological features
change very gradually, not rapidly
_Gradualism Errors: overlooking the fact that large-scale
cataclysms can cause rapid geological changes
_Fossilization: formation of fossils during strata deposition
_Atmosphere Shrinkage: shrinkage of the atmosphere due to rapid
losses to space
_Gigantism: tendency of plants and animals to grow to giant size
_End of Gigantism: loss of conditions favoring gigantism
_Ice Age: time of widespread glaciation
_Ancient Myths: ancient anthropomorphic reports about celestial
conditions before, during and after cataclysms
_Advanced Ancient Civilization: high tech civilization in
ancient times, destroyed by cataclysms
---
Wednesday, May 24, 2017 7:30 PM
From: mike@newgeology.us
_You are taking real initiative in this project. As requested,
my wording of your list is below.
_IMPACT GENERATED FLOOD CATASTROPHISM - ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS &
DEFINITIONS
_Planetoid: any rocky body in outer space: i.e. meteor, comet,
asteroid, moon, rocky planet
_Planetoid Near-Collision/s: the possibility that one or more
planetoids came close enough to Earth to raise high tides
_Megatides/Megatsunamis: tides/tsunamis large enough to deposit
sedimentary rock strata
_Impacts: fall of planetoids onto Earth's surface
_Megasequence: conforming strata between unconformities
_Megasequence Deposition: deposition of conforming strata
_Supercontinent: large continent composed of smaller landmasses
_Supercontinent Breakup: breakup of a supercontinent into
separate continents
_Impact Orogeny: mountain uplift caused by rapid continent
breakup following a giant planetoid impact
_Impact Volcanism: volcanic eruption caused directly or
indirectly by planetoid impact
_Radiometric Dating: using radioactive decay and its products to
determine age
_Radiometric Dating Errors: errors due to invalid assumptions in
radiometric dating
_Gradualism: the theory that large-scale geological features
change very gradually, not rapidly; the present is the key to
the past
_Gradualism Errors: overlooking the influence of cataclysms on
geology
_Fossilization: burial of organisms and/or evidence of their
activity during strata deposition
_Atmosphere Shrinkage: dissipation of the atmosphere due to
rapid loss of gas into outer space
_Gigantism: tendency of plants and animals to grow to giant size
_End of Gigantism: loss of conditions favoring gigantism
_Ice Age: period of extensive glaciation
_Ancient Celestial Catastrophic Myths: ancient human stories
about celestial conditions before, during and after cataclysms
_Advanced Ancient Civilization: proposed high tech civilization
in ancient times, allegedly destroyed by cataclysm
---
_Hi Mike. Robert Farrar was discussing granite a couple weeks
ago. I lived in New Hampshire a few years ago and noticed that
their granite seems to be metamorphosed sedimentary rock. Do you
know why sometimes the sedimentary rocks in mountain ranges
metamorphosed, while most of the time, I think, they remained
sedimentary? Where the strata are folded in mountain ranges,
would those be metamorphosed, or not? My impression was that
they're sedimentary, but I'm starting to suspect that they must
metamorphose. Do you agree or not? Could most or all granites be
metamorphosed sedimentary rock?
_Following are passages from a recent post by Robert in a
different thread. Could you comment on what you agree and
disagree with? He seems to contradict himself a little regarding
sedimentary rock.
_Re: An Alternative to Plate and Expansion Tectonics
Postby Robertus Maximus » Tue Jun 27, 2017 3:10 pm
_... how ... do we explain the dual nature of the Earth’s crust?
_... I have suggested that Earth may well contain a hollow
_such a hollow would serve as a reservoir for hydrogen, methane,
ammonia, silane etc.
_Results from the Kola Super-deep borehole show a
counter-intuitive exponential increase of rock porosity with
depth.
_Such porosity would enable elements from deep within the Earth
to migrate to the surface.
_Near the surface upwelling methane is gradually oxidised CH4 +
O2 = 2H2O + C, leaving behind vast deposits of oil and coal.
_... Clearly upwelling methane contributes to Earth’s water
budget.
_The principal ... volcanic gases ... are H2O, H2,CH4 (and other
hydrocarbons), O2, CO, CO2" [etc].
_It would seem that most volcanic eruptions have less to do with
the popular picture of molten rock and more to do with upwelling
methane reacting with plentiful amounts of oxygen in the Earth’s
crust.
_Upwelling silane too, is oxidised as it approaches the
surface....
_The origin of the ‘continental crust’
_Basalt is one of the most common rock types found on Earth and
... on all the terrestrial planets.
_... On Earth the largest occurrences of basalt are on the ocean
floor which is almost completely made up of basalt.
_On the continents themselves we find outpourings of rock
normally associated with the ocean floor - basalt is the rock
most typical of large igneous provinces.
_... “Ancient Precambrian basalts are usually only found in fold
and thrust belts, and are often heavily metamorphosed.”
_... Upon the Earth’s basaltic foundation we find features not
found on the other terrestrial planets, the continents.
_We have previously seen that a product of the silane - oxygen
reaction is silica
_is it possible that the continents themselves formed from the
outgassing of silicon dioxide?
_We could picture the early Earth as being Venus-like in its
topographic appearance with very little relief.
_Over time outpourings of silica collected, perhaps around
localised elevated regions of the basaltic ‘primary’ crust or
areas undergoing outgassing.
_Water collected initially in depressions in the basaltic
‘primary’ crust.
_... Modern day analogous processes would include deep sea
vents, particularly ‘white smokers’ which emit minerals
comprising barium, calcium and silicon.
_Such vents are known to develop ‘chimneys’,
_geomorphic and geologic structures on Earth today show a
resemblance to ‘chimneys’ formed long-ago;
_they are variously described as ‘Limestone pillars’,
’Sand-columns’, ’Sandstone pillars’, ‘Pipes’, and perhaps we
could include ‘Monadnocks’ and ‘Inselbergs’.
_On land we find geysers leave similar silica deposits.
_In North Africa today we find a geological feature known as the
‘Richat Structure’.
_... Its centre consists of a siliceous breccia covering an area
that is at least 30 kilometres (19 mi) in diameter.
_“Exposed within the interior of the Richat Structure are a
variety of intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks.
_They include rhyolitic volcanic rocks, gabbros, carbonatites
and kimberlites. The rhyolitic rocks consist of lava flows and
hydrothermally altered tuffaceous rocks that are part of two
distinct eruptive centers, which are interpreted to be the
eroded remains of two maars.
_... These intrusive igneous rocks are interpreted as indicating
the presence of a large alkaline igneous intrusion that
currently underlies the Richat Structure and created it by
uplifting the overlying rock.
_... Sedimentary Basins and the Precambrian
_... In light of what I have suggested above is it possible that
sedimentary basins are not ‘sedimentary’ at all, rather they are
‘outgassing’ or ‘eruptive’ basins?
_... Lowermost ‘sedimentary’ rocks in such basins we can
reclassify as ‘pre-sedimentary’ rocks, lacking fossils
geologists would assign them to the Precambrian.
_Upper layers would consist of re-worked ‘pre-sedimentary’
rocks, as sedimentary rocks that contain fossils geologists
would assign these rock formations to the Phanerozoic.
_... Greenstone Belts
_... “Greenstone belts are primarily formed of volcanic rocks,
dominated by basalt, with minor sedimentary rocks inter-leaving
the volcanic formations.
_Through time, the degree of sediment contained within
greenstone belts has risen, and the amount of ultramafic rock
(either as layered intrusions or as volcanic komatiite) has
decreased.
_“Sedimentary sequences within greenstone belts comprise both
clastic (e.g., conglomerate, quartz arenite, shale and
graywacke) and chemically precipitated (e.g., banded iron
formation and chert) components.
_... The observed increase in sediment and decrease in basalt
type rocks “through time” is explained by what I have proposed
here i.e. accumulated silica outgassing.
...
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