Note: this topic is from 2/20/2004. Thanks Mike Darancette.
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Posted on 02/20/2004 7:50:03 PM PST by Mike Darancette
Note: this topic is from 2/20/2004. Thanks Mike Darancette.
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Note: this topic is from 2/20/2004. Thanks Mike Darancette. Just a little housekeeping, Dallas Abbott keyword.
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Note: this topic is from 2/20/2004. Thanks Mike Darancette. Just a little housekeeping, Dallas Abbott keyword.
crustal thin line or crack yielded to magmatic pressure.
no asteroid or outdide force was involved
Atmospherically challenged? OK, this PC crap has gone too damned far.
Contrary to popular theories, size isn't everything.
At Hiroshima, just a gram of uranium was converted into energy. (Yeah, different processes, but speed can be a similar multiplier. A quarter travelling at the speed of light could do a lot of damage were it to impact the earth.
I think that the antipode idea regarding the Deccan Trappes may be true, and that the angle the asteroid came in could effect the area of exact maximum shock. However, the Hawaiian Chain started about 70 mya with the Emperor Seamount Chain which was trending south from the Aleutian Trench until around 44 mya when it started to trend more eastward. The cause is suggested to be a magma hot spot which was moving for a time and then stood still and let the crust move over it. See the link below with ocean map clearly showing the two series of volcanic mounds, the significant change of direction, and the final point in the Hawaiian Islands.
http://geology.com/usgs/hawaiian-hot-spot/
Antipodal Hotspot Pairs
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf088/sf088g12.htm
Glitches In The Terrestrial Conveyor Belt
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf118/sf118p11.htm
Do the continents really drift?
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf026/sf026p08.htm
No asteroid was harmed in the making of this study . . .
:’)
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