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  Is Pangea still drifting? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-07-26 18:14 -0700
    Re: Is Pangea still drifting? David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2018-07-27 00:52 -0230
      Re: Is Pangea still drifting? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-07-26 20:30 -0700
        Re: Is Pangea still drifting? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2018-07-27 15:07 +0000
          Re: Is Pangea still drifting? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-07-27 09:21 -0700

#695810 — Is Pangea still drifting?

What pushes continental drift? and how has it ended?
The current state is where they have always been.

Mitchell Raemsch

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#695827

On Jul 26, 2018, mitchrae3323@gmail.com wrote
(in article<16765e9b-a311-468e-8246-d8ead6454f94@googlegroups.com>):

> What pushes continental drift? and how has it ended?
> The current state is where they have always been.
>
> Mitchell Raemsch

The general consensus is that plate tectonics is
driven by mantle convection.

It hasn’t ended, the plates are moving at a rate of
centimetres per year, with the Atlantic opening and
the Pacific closing.

-- 
David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
“Coming into season this world will flower
With the power of love, not the love of power" (Mae Moore)

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#695828

On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 8:22:08 PM UTC-7, David Dalton wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2018, mitchrae3323@gmail.com wrote
> (in article<16765e9b-a311-468e-8246-d8ead6454f94@googlegroups.com>):
> 
> > What pushes continental drift? and how has it ended?
> > The current state is where they have always been.
> >
> > Mitchell Raemsch
> 
> The general consensus is that plate tectonics is
> driven by mantle convection.

Don't the plates fit completely over the entire Earth leaving no
room to move David? They meet each other at their boundaries
leaving no movement possible.

> 
> It hasn’t ended, the plates are moving at a rate of
> centimetres per year, with the Atlantic opening and
> the Pacific closing.

Then there is a reverse Pangea coming that doesn't fit together.

I don't believe that measurement. The alternative is that
everything has been where it is at since the beginning.

Mitchell Raemsch

> 
> -- 
> David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
> http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
> “Coming into season this world will flower
> With the power of love, not the love of power" (Mae Moore)

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#695873

mitchrae3323@gmail.com writes:

>On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 8:22:08 PM UTC-7, David Dalton wrote:

>> The general consensus is that plate tectonics is
>> driven by mantle convection.

>Don't the plates fit completely over the entire Earth leaving no
>room to move David? They meet each other at their boundaries
>leaving no movement possible.

Ever hear of earthquakes? At the scale involved (continent sized) even
solid rock is flexible to expand or contract a couple cm/year. Also
many plates are being pushed under other plates, particularly around
the Pacific. Or they pile up into mountains (like the Himalayas)

>> It hasn't ended, the plates are moving at a rate of
>> centimetres per year, with the Atlantic opening and
>> the Pacific closing.

>Then there is a reverse Pangea coming that doesn't fit together.

Don't worry, the plates will slide under each other, crunch up against
each other to form mountains and so forth.

>I don't believe that measurement.

Well, the measurements don't believe in you.

>The alternative is that everything has been where it is at since the 
beginning.

We know that is wrong from the geologic records.

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#695886

On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 8:07:58 AM UTC-7, Michael Moroney wrote:
> mitchrae3323@gmail.com writes:
> 
> >On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 8:22:08 PM UTC-7, David Dalton wrote:
> 
> >> The general consensus is that plate tectonics is
> >> driven by mantle convection.
> 
> >Don't the plates fit completely over the entire Earth leaving no
> >room to move David? They meet each other at their boundaries
> >leaving no movement possible.
> 
> Ever hear of earthquakes? 

This makes my point. Earthquakes are side to side
not against each other.

> At the scale involved (continent sized) even
> solid rock is flexible to expand or contract a couple cm/year. Also
> many plates are being pushed under other plates, particularly around
> the Pacific. Or they pile up into mountains (like the Himalayas)


Balogna.

> 
> >> It hasn't ended, the plates are moving at a rate of
> >> centimetres per year, with the Atlantic opening and
> >> the Pacific closing.
> 
> >Then there is a reverse Pangea coming that doesn't fit together.
> 
> Don't worry, the plates will slide under each other, crunch up against
> each other to form mountains and so forth.
> 
> >I don't believe that measurement.
> 
> Well, the measurements don't believe in you.

Show the measurement...

> 
> >The alternative is that everything has been where it is at since the 
> beginning.
> 
> We know that is wrong from the geologic records.

What is in the record?

Mitchell Raemsch

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