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....
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
too many SUVs on that side of the planet tipped it?
Correlation with the passage of Planet X?
Gabby Johnson was right!
Hank Johnson.
WOW!!! Must have been a Helluva ride!
No....let her go. By all means.
My calculations say it was 86 million years ago.
There was no US military so it couldn’t tip over from all that weight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5dkqUy7mUk
Our honorable, expert, science driven leaders at work.
These are the folks leading us through covid, all science driven of course!!! Hahahaha
and I’m suppose to care ? Nope
Hank Johnson. From none other than Georgia, the biden cheat part of Georgia.
AOC is now saying we only have 12 million years left
It's the other way around. The crust rotates about the core; and it happens every 10,000 to 20,000 years. See Earth's Shifting Crust: A Key To Some Basic Problems Of Earth Science (by Charles Hapgood, forward by THE Albert Einstein).
ML/NJ
13 minutes 22 seconds. You can laugh, you can scoff, you can ignore, or...
Not sure that I buy this. The geologic record of fossils and radioactive rock dating would have had thousands of indicators already established that would have suggested this many decades ago.
It’s too recent to have been overlooked. Besides, I can’t read anything without suspecting it will somehow endorse the global warming scam, even remotely.
I’m skeptical.
Obviously, the earth was drunk and needed a little time to sober up.
Thinks the true figure is supposed to be about 10k but you’re roughly in the ballpark.
The theory of plate tectonics and polar switching got traction when they were dragging magnetometers through the oceans looking for submarines in the early days. When passing over spreading centers such as the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the magnetometers picked up the north/south orientation of the magmatite in bands parallel to the plate boundary and it switched back and forth.
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