Re: Is Pangea still drifting?

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Date	2018-07-27 09:21 -0700
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Subject	Re: Is Pangea still drifting?
From	mitchrae3323@gmail.com

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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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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

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