With a big enough sheet of paper, and a bold enough pen I was able to do some calculations I should have done for the previous post. I say there that at the rte of subduction supposed to be as much as meters per second North America and Asia would have come within hailing distance within the year of the Flood. But that is apparently a big underestimation of the numbers if my current calculations are correct.
What I get if I call meters per second three meters per second, is a mobvement of the North American continent at a rate of one hundred and sixty one miles PER DAY. I had to do this more than once and ask my little friend Alexa for her calculations as well but that's what I end up tgetting and at that rate North America would have bashed into Asia after about two and a half months of travel across the Pacific. The total travel time for a year comes out to over 58,000 miles which is something like fife times the greatest width of the Pacific.
Is this what the CPT people think or am I getting somethig very wrong here? Do they think the continents bashed together like that after traveling ast such a high rate of speed? And what then? In the Atlantic the splitting of the original continent is what brought about the Atlantic ridge which creates new sea floor as the continents move apart. There's no breaking apart to be done on the Pacific side and I'm not even sure what would cause the continents to spearate again after crashing into each other. Also, as that was happening, closing up twelve thousand miles of Pacific Ocean that is, the Atlantic would ahve to be expanding by that same amount, some disix thousand iles on either side of the ridge. Could the magma welling up create sea floor basalt at that rate? I don't know, wmaybe it could.
But I con't know what the whole CPT model is. It hasn't really been spellied out on Wood and Garner's podcast, or in Garner's book, sjust roughly indicated. hat I'm coming up with may not be anything ike what they came up with and I hE NO WAY OF KNOWING. I wish that caps lock key would just disappear, I guess I hit it from time to time without noticing and so I have no idea how long it was on. Sorry.
Anyway, this whole CPT scenario has me utterly flummoed and skeptical. If all that bashing occurred I don't see how the Geologic Column had could have formed with any regularity at all. The jolting of subduction alone triggers volcanoes and earthquakes, and yet the column is intact in some places and blocks of it intact here and there as well. I also don't see how it could have matched up so ewell across the Atlantic ocea as it does if all that activity was going on as well as the gulf wideing at a uge rate daily.
My own model is based on a mere cross section. Laugh away. It is corroborated by some other observations however. But the cross section clearly whshows that tectonic activity started afer all the strata were in place. That's why I came up with the idea of one gigantic jolt at the end of the flood, just before it started draining and probably the cause of its draining. It would have to have somehow created the space for the water along with the breaking up of the supercontinent, somehow dropping the level of the ocean floor?
It would be nice to have someone to talk to about all this who inows a lot oabout it.
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Later:.. Always something I get wrong. SIgh. I gave the widg of the Pacific Ocean as twelve thousand miles. That's the width TODAY. But at the time of the splitting of the supercotinent and drifting of the current continents its width would ahve been that plus the curent width of the Atlant ciic Ocean which I thinki is around three tousand miles? Maybe more like 3500. Guess I'll ahve to chekc when I have the opportunity. So fifteen thousand or more miles but that isn'tgoing to make a differnce in the basic scenario as the continents ware still goig to travel falset eough to bash into each other in a few months.
Later yet. Double Sigh. Another correctrion. When I first asked Alexis the width of the Pacific Ocean she gave me twelve thousand miles and I didn't stop to realize that she must be talking about a distance tbetween maybe Australia or the Pacific Islands or something and SOUTH America rather than North America beause that distance is just too much. Sigh. So I asked again. Btween Asia and North America, I said, and got somethijng under six thousand miles.
Half the distance I'd hd in mind earlier. So now the contnetns would have been crashing into eafch other in a little over a monthj rather than two and a half months. Again it doesn't make much sidfferntce to the overall point but I do want to try to get things right.
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