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To: sit-rep
The clip to which you linked only proves my point!

Although titled "Plate Tectonics for Kids," it did a decent job of explaining Plate Tectonics.

The graphics were all right, but the narrator oversimplified a few things. For a children's program, probably OK.

In any event, there was never any talk or image in the clip indicating that tectonic plates are "basically floating on a molten inner core."

Rather, the clip correctly points out that the Earth's Lithosphere (crust - including plates - plus upper part of the Mantle, which can behave elastically in a geological time-frame, i.e., over thousands of years) - rests on the Asthenosphere, which is almost solid, but mechanically weak; which in turn rests on the Outer Core (liquid metal); which in turn rests on the Inner Core (solid metal).

The graphics in the clip (and in elementary school textbooks) frequently use orange and yellow for visual clarity - but that should not be taken to mean that the corresponding regions are molten.

Regards,

66 posted on 05/08/2023 10:11:54 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

You’re too smart to remember the basics...

What happens when you drop a rock in a glass jar full of water? A hand full of pea gravel?? A rock that just fits into the jar??

I can clearly envision voids and caves or caverns, areas small enough to support btheir openings. But area the size of the Pacific ocean??????? No ... No way...


68 posted on 05/08/2023 10:31:05 AM PDT by sit-rep
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