To: editor-surveyor; MHGinTN
It appears to be you (MHG)
that doesn't understand tectonics. The plates are the result of the rupture of "the fountains of the great deep" as stated in the word. Your plate tectonics class must have been a riot.
No facet of tectonics allows for reconversion of sediment back into basaltic rock.
Subduction.
130 posted on
07/11/2006 3:46:15 PM PDT by
VadeRetro
(Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
To: VadeRetro
No, subduction is essentially the plate remelting as it slips under another. No one has ever advanced the idea that any significant amount of sediment could be carried along for the ride, and the pressures involved make that unlikely.
132 posted on
07/11/2006 3:54:59 PM PDT by
editor-surveyor
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