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To: winoneforthegipper

Are you seeing what I am seeing?

I'm pretty sure I am! It's going to take time and a few cups of coffee to grasp enough to be able respond coherently... lol

I am thinking that theoretically the process of up-heaving and subduction at times can be quicker than Millenniums....

I completely agree with your idea of subduction being quicker at times, and I think we're seeing pumping instead of convection. Instead of the plates being "dragged", I suggest plates are being pushed apart by this pumping action; how fast depends upon how powerful the pump and/or the characteristics of the material being pumped.

Those subduction tails should also create interesting conditions for the locale where they exist. I think this action action is a global phenomenon.

But I like this idea of combining our theories to find a link. ;)

213 posted on 10/02/2012 7:49:03 AM PDT by Errant

From that IRIS link I gave you...the ARRAY is already providing clues to the eastern us not even conceived of....and lends supports to the farallon though not mentioned....! here is the quote from that link!

We show that a thermal plume-like upwelling interacting with the base of the continental lithosphere can produce the requisite seismic signal. A Late Cretaceous kimberlite in Kentucky, dated 75 Ma, pins a hotspot track that bends NE in Virginia. Seismic data indicates that the lower lithospheric anomaly along this NE segment is even stronger than the EW segment, supporting such a hypothesis.

215 posted on 10/02/2012 7:53:48 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)

This is freakin awesome....another capture from the ARRAY...!

http://www.iris.edu/hq/iris_workshop2012/scihi/WebPages/0014.html

217 posted on 10/02/2012 8:08:03 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)

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