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DhhD

(4,695 posts)
Sat Jan 9, 2016, 03:16 PM Jan 2016

Young Age of Earth's Ocean Floors

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by eppur_se_muova (a host of the Science group).

Evolution and Geological Planet Formation

http://innovative-planetary-science.page.tl/Plate-tectonics.htm
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Atlantic and Pacific ocean-floors originated in Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary. Today the Pacific and Atlantic ocean cover more than half of the earth-surface. So the earth must have grown in past geological times.
more at link


http://news.berkeley.edu/2010/08/25/north_american_craton_layer_cake/


Nevada seems to be covered with butts and crators with crystals and lava flows.


Seems like very recent earthquake data is showing that the North American Craton is moving southeastward.

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Young Age of Earth's Ocean Floors (Original Post) DhhD Jan 2016 OP
k and r niyad Jan 2016 #1
Pseudoscience should be in Creative Speculation. nt Agnosticsherbet Jan 2016 #2
Real Earthquake Data DhhD Jan 2016 #5
Interesting. nt jonno99 Jan 2016 #3
The mountain ridge down the middle of them have been creating shraby Jan 2016 #4
Earthquake data is suggesting that there needs to be subduction near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge if the DhhD Jan 2016 #6
"There is no alternative explanation." Pegs the bullshit meter. eppur_se_muova Jan 2016 #7

niyad

(123,304 posts)
1. k and r
Sat Jan 9, 2016, 03:19 PM
Jan 2016

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
2. Pseudoscience should be in Creative Speculation. nt
Sat Jan 9, 2016, 03:34 PM
Jan 2016

jonno99

(2,620 posts)
3. Interesting. nt
Sat Jan 9, 2016, 03:34 PM
Jan 2016

shraby

(21,946 posts)
4. The mountain ridge down the middle of them have been creating
Sat Jan 9, 2016, 03:44 PM
Jan 2016

new seafloor for millennia.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
6. Earthquake data is suggesting that there needs to be subduction near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge if the
Sat Jan 9, 2016, 04:04 PM
Jan 2016

Earth is still the same size now as it was about 3 billion years ago.

eppur_se_muova

(38,914 posts)
7. "There is no alternative explanation." Pegs the bullshit meter.
Sat Jan 9, 2016, 09:11 PM
Jan 2016

A huge amount of wild speculation based on data which the overwhelming majority of researches do not find inconsistent with current models. Try reposting in Creative Speculation.

http://quasar.as.utexas.edu/BillInfo/Quack.html

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