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Earth tipped over on its side 84 million years ago and then righted itself, new study finds
Business Insider ^
| 19 Jun 2021
| Aylin Woodward
Posted on 06/19/2021 5:28:30 PM PDT by blueplum
If you'd been able to stare at Earth from space during the late Cretaceous, when Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops roamed, it would've looked like the whole planet had tipped over on its side.
According to a new study, Earth tilted by 12 degrees about 84 million years ago....
The researchers found that, between 86 and 79 million years ago, the crust and mantle had rotated around Earth's outer core and back again — causing the entire planet to tilt and then right itself like a roly-poly toy....
...Prior to the late Cretaceous, the Pacific Plate — the largest tectonic plate on Earth spanning 40 million square miles under the Pacific Ocean — was sinking under another plate to its north. Around 84 million years ago....
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: axisshift; climatechange; crevo; earthscience; evospeculation; geology; globalwarming; hankjohnson; oldearthspeculation; physics; spontaneouslifers
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To: blueplum
Let’s throw out there millions and millions and millions of years.
Add an unprovable imaginative theory.
We now have yet another attempt to disprove the Great Flood.
To: blueplum
Now how the heck do they know what happened 80+ billion years ago????
This is more Fake Science....
Tell us you really know....
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posted on
06/19/2021 6:21:24 PM PDT
by
Pez149
(Time to stop saying a theory is fact....)
To: blueplum
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posted on
06/19/2021 6:23:22 PM PDT
by
samadams2000
(Get your houses in order.)
To: blueplum
Correction: 6000-6500 years ago.
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posted on
06/19/2021 6:25:24 PM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: kiryandil
"but what about Guam?"
It had no problem back then, because there were no people.
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posted on
06/19/2021 6:29:14 PM PDT
by
fini
To: kiryandil
ROFLOL! I was waiting for that!
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posted on
06/19/2021 6:37:18 PM PDT
by
crz
To: blueplum
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posted on
06/19/2021 6:37:37 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
To: blueplum
To: blueplum
The researchers found that, between 86 and 79 million years ago, the crust and mantle had rotated around Earth's outer core and back again — causing the entire planet to tilt and then right itself like a roly-poly toy.... Read Charles Hapgood...he proposed this decades ago and wrote quite a few good books. He was laughed off as a kook...looks like he's right. He considered that ice ages were the result of the earths' crust doing exactly this.
To: blueplum
Wow! And they laughed when someone asked if Guam can tip over!
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posted on
06/19/2021 6:45:08 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” )
To: Robert DeLong
Thank you for the rare productive comment.
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posted on
06/19/2021 6:50:01 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: blueplum
Earth tipped over on its side 84 million years ago and then righted itself, new study finds Earth:
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posted on
06/19/2021 6:51:22 PM PDT
by
fidelis
(Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
To: F450-V10
Well there is... But no one would listen or accept it. The far western cliffs of Ireland are a northern point of the Appalachian mountains as just one example...
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posted on
06/19/2021 6:52:56 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: blueplum
Reading the article I couldn’t tell whether the writer is trying to tell us that the earth and its rotational axis tilted an extra 12 degrees or the earth remained stable, but started rotating on an axis tilted 12 degrees from its previous rotational axis.
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posted on
06/19/2021 6:56:48 PM PDT
by
nagant
To: ducttape45
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posted on
06/19/2021 6:58:01 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: DouglasKC
Yep, sure enough. And it answers a lot of puzzles.
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posted on
06/19/2021 7:00:09 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: blueplum
I remember reading in SAGA magazine from around 1969, how the earth’s magnetic poles will shift and the crust of the earth will float over the core! When the magnetic field settles no telling where you will be on the earth.
Between 86 and 79 million. That is seven million years. A mighty long time!
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posted on
06/19/2021 7:00:46 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
To: blueplum
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posted on
06/19/2021 7:02:03 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
To: kiryandil
The earth was heard to say “Oopsy daisy” right after.
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posted on
06/19/2021 7:11:21 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
To: blueplum
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06/19/2021 7:23:30 PM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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