Posted on 04/29/2015 4:42:36 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
My toe fungus caused global the earthquake.
Santa Claus lives in Nepal?
My Parents lied to me!
“””My toe fungus caused the earthquake”””
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The National Geological Society has a different opinion:
225 million years ago (Ma) India was a large island situated off the Australian coast and separated from Asia by the Tethys Ocean. The supercontinent Pangea began to break up 200 Ma and India started a northward drift towards Asia. 80 Ma India was 6,400 km south of the Asian continent but moving towards it at a rate of between 9 and 16 cm per year. At this time Tethys Ocean floor would have been subducting northwards beneath Asia and the plate margin would have been a Convergent oceanic-continental one just like the Andes today.
Between 40 and 20 Ma the rate of northward drift slowed as the two continental plates collided and the former Tethys Ocean closed. Neither continental plate could be subducted due to their low density/buoyancy. This caused the continental crust to thicken due to folding and faulting by compressional forces. The continental crust here is twice the average thickness at around 75 km. The thickening of the continental crust marked the end of volcanic activity in the region as any magma moving upwards would solidify before it could reach the surface.
The Himalayas are still rising by more than 1 cm per year as India continues to move northwards into Asia, which explains the occurrence of shallow focus earthquakes in the region today. However the forces of weathering and erosion are lowering the Himalayas at about the same rate. The Himalayas and Tibetan plateau trend east-west and extend for 2,900 km, reaching the maximum elevation of 8,848 metres (Mount Everest).
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap3-Plate-Margins/Convergent/Continental-Collision
About 10-12 thousand years ago much of the northern U.S. was covered by an ice sheet up to two miles in height. That all receded. If what the good professor says is true, there should be some sort of record of extreme seismic activity during that recession.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
There is strong evidence that ED is also linked to climate change (aka global warming).
Global warming is an oxymoron..
Time to add this to the list of everything else that causes Globull Warming!
Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava studies politics. That might explain his poor understanding of physics and geology. But like a lot of lefties (Al Gore comes to mind), he is not shy about lecturing us on subjects he knows nothing about.
This dude is wack. Scientist? Hardly
Global warming is solely caused by a purple lipped homosexual in the White House.
This is “settled” science.
Who caused the global warming earthquake that separated the continents? The citizens of Bedrock?
Unicorns. It’s all caused by unicorns.
“Talk about something else that’s falling from the sky
and that is an asteroid. What’s coming our way? Is this
an effect of, perhaps, of global warming, or is this just
some meteoric occasion?” - CNN’s Deborah Feyerick
Political Science is right up there with Military Intelligence in terms of Oxymorons.
He may not be a Seismologist, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn!
There is severe cracking of China when plates collide. ;-)
Discussing symptoms; if the current CO2 levels are causing these problems how do we reduce CO2 to 1850 levels?
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