The paleomagnetic record from the Amadeus Basin in Australia (marked by the star) indicate a large shift in some parts of the Gondwana supercontinent relative to the South Pole. (Illustration: Ross Mitchell/Yale University)
The paleomagnetic record from the Amadeus Basin in Australia (marked by the star) indicate a large shift in some parts of the Gondwana supercontinent relative to the South Pole. (Illustration: Ross Mitchell/Yale University)
Shift work ping.
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Much warmer core and thinner crust maybe?
>with some regions attaining a speed of at least 16 (+12/-8) cm/year,
OMG, that is 6.3 inches per year! Ah! Clearly GW.
Polar wander? My wife would kill me if she found out...
STOP CONTINENTAL DRIFT!!! REUNITE GONDWANALAND!!!
Do people actually get paid to dream up this crap? Show me where to join...I have a few ideas I’d like to get paid for. (snicker)
Huh, and I thought the Cambrian Explosion took place in Chicago in 1893.
Rove, you magnificent bastard!
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...the Moon clearly could not have been the satellite of the Earth then, for a total period of about 2,000 million years... Spurr points out that the face of the Moon shows two systems of great surface fractures, or faults, lying about 30 degrees from the two poles and trending from west-south-west to east-north-east. This is explained by him as a result of the halting of the Moon's rotation... Curiously, the face of the Earth, too, shows a similar structure, with the same general trend -- the Highland Boundary Fault... The poles of the Earth would also seem to have shifted place on at least three occasions, in the Cambrian, Permian, and (lastly) Quaternary Periods, brining ice and cold to previously warm lands... some mighty force made the crust of the Earth slip (the rotational stability of the axis of a mass as large as the Earth is enormous) and the position of the poles wobbled... there exists on the Moon a triple grid of surface fractures... perpendicular to each other within each grid, the grids being of different ages... Cambrian, Perm-Carboniferous, and Tertiary.Firsoff's basically given us a snapshot of the problems inherent with a fission origin (having settled on an overspin origin for the Moon, very early in the history of the Earth), not least of which is that the fission origin also requires in orbit formation of the lunar sphere and capture by the Earth, while showing that capture is possible. Capture of the Moon, irrespective of its place and era of formation, is the simplest model.
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...to some scientists...Rocks show life began 1bn years earlier than first thoughtScientists studying Australian rocks have found evidence that primitive forms of life existed 2.7bn years ago - a billion years earlier than had been previously shown... The finding pushes back evidence of life to the Archean era, the period from the beginning of earth to about 2.5bn years ago... Most rocks as old as the ones studied have undergone a process called metamorphism, an intense geological heating that changes them and which scientists believed would destroy any organic compounds they contained. But the shales studied by this team were well-preserved and still contained the biological chemicals. The researchers found evidence of organic compounds called lipids in the sedimentary rocks located more than 2,100ft deep in north-western Australia's Roy Hill Shale and Marra Mamba Formations. The rocks formed a seabed 2.6 bn to 2.7 bn years ago... Because of their complexity, eukaryotes were thought to have developed relatively late in earth's history. This discovery pushes the date for their appearance back to the earliest part of geological time.
The Guardian
Saturday August 14, 1999
[orig: www.newsunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,73745,00.html]Paleoproterozoic snowball Earth (pdf)This snowball model predicts that postglacial, greenhouse-induced warming would lead to the deposition of banded iron formations and cap carbonates. Although global glaciation would have drastically curtailed biological productivity, melting of the oceanic ice would also have induced a cyanobacterial bloom, leading to an oxygen spike in the euphotic zone and to the oxidative precipitation of iron and manganese... Kirschvink noted that the extreme geochemical environments predicted by a snowball Earth model explain the Neo-proterozoic banded iron formations (BIFs).
Joseph L. Kirschvink et al
Early life theory takes a biffMoreover, the carbon isotopic basis used for interpreting its organic origin is questionable, the authors say. The authors demonstrate that much of the fine layering in the banded rocks, interpreted as a typical BIF (Banded Iron Formation) sedimentary structure, was in fact formed as a result of metamorphic processes.
May 24, 2002
A chemical study of the rocks also points away from a BIF origin for the banded rock. Analyses of green bands show that their composition is very similar to komatiite, a type of basalt. If this is correct there is little chance that the preserved graphite represents past life.
Recent studies of hydrothermal vents on mid-ocean ridges have also shown that basalt-like rocks can interact with water to form carbon compounds by non-biological processes, leaving an isotopic signature similar to that of metabolic function. While it is possible life existed on Earth when the rocks on Akilia formed, direct evidence for life older than approximately 3.8 billion years ago is still lacking.
Northern Crater Shows Prehistoric Deep ImpactTo the rhinos and crocodiles of the far north, the day was like any other. They ate, swam and napped, unaware a celestial body was headed their way at 60,000 miles per hour. Suddenly, a wayward comet screamed into the atmosphere, struck Earth and created a bowl a mile deep and 15 miles in diameter.
by Ned RozellMars On Earth: Arctic Crater Reveals Martian Secrets (pt 2)Haughton Crater is the remaining scar from a high-speed collision between Earth and some heavy object from space about 23 million years ago. The comet or asteroid that created the crater was perhaps more than a mile (up to 2 kilometers) across and slammed into the forest that existed on Devon Island. Everything was annihilated for scores of miles in all directions. The impact churned up rock from more than a mile below the surface, vaporizing much of it. It's estimated that between 70 and 100 billion tons of rock was excavated from the crater in the moments just after the impact. While clouds of dust and gas filled the air, rock rained down from the sky, much of it in the form of what geologists now call breccia, which simply means "broken up." Scattered within the breccia are pieces of a rock called gneiss that normally is dark and dense. In Haughton Crater breccia, the "shocked gneiss" resembles pumice stone -- it's ash-white, porous and very lightweight.Voices of the Rocks"Yet, as it will, life returned to this site of complete devastation... The world those fossils described, the one that flourished on the order of 20 million years ago, during the early Miocene epoch, was strikingly different from today's Arctic... Devon Island was covered with a forest of birch trees and conifers, a landscape that one now finds about 2,000 miles to the south, in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Maine. Now-extinct forms of rhinoceros and mouse deer browsed among the trees; shrews and pika-like relatives of modern rabbits darted through the shadows; and freshwater fish swam the lakes and streams...
by Robert Schoch
and Robert Aquinas McNally
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"Even farther back, on the order of 45 to 65 million years ago, during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, the fossil record shows Devon Island to have been still more profoundly different. Back then, what is now the Arctic was a region of swampy lowlands, slow-moving rivers, and towering forests of dawn redwood, kadsura, and ancestral forms of hickory, elm, birch, sycamore, and maple. Primitive fishes, crocodiles, salamanders, newts, and turtles inhabited the rivers and marshes, while the forests and meadows supported flying lemurs, early primates, forerunners of today's cats and dogs, and ancestors of the rhinos, tapirs, and horses."