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could these calderas be the result of the Earth getting hit by shotgun blasts of meteor strikes?
During the time of Pangaea, numerous calderas supposedly started erupting.
I think it is very reasonable to think that maybe this was the result of the Earth getting hit by numerous large, very dense, high speed meteors that punched through Earth's crust. This would explain the origins of calderas.
This would also explain Earth's considerable expansion after or during this period.
Apparently Crater Lake is a caldera.
As far as your use of the wiki link, without and quotes that back your claims, or a link to the original source, here is a link that proves everything you say is wrong.
You also claimed that there was an association with impact sites and calderas. I asked if you knew of any such associations. Did you forget to try and connect these issues?
I am not aware of such a connection. If you have anything to show I believe many readers would be interested in seeing some information on the subject.
Gora Konder Crater, Yakutsk, CIS (57.5N,134.5E) is located in a very remote region of the Republic of Yakutsk, CIS where little ground survey work has been done. It is not known for certain wether Gora Konder crater is the extinct caldera of an ancient volcano or an impact crater from a meteor strike since both occurrences may often exhibit similar visual appearances and only a ground survey can make a positive determination.
Ah yes, you foolishly think all theories are proven facts. Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
Gora-Konder-Crater,-Yakutsk,-CIS
There currently are no good theories as to why so many calderas occurred on Pangaea, or old Earth before it began a tremendous expansion.
The expanding earth theory is becoming more valid by the day ,I agree with the Op,with current events of cracks appearing all over the place and japan moving,I just can`t get my head away from the proposition of the theory.
Originally posted by gringoboy
reply to post by stereologist
A LOT TO DIGEST
Well you intend to be observant.Protons are positively charged and affect the constituation of what our solar companion will consume in 72 years from now,changing its heliosphere dynamics that is already being observed.Opposites attract and similar polarities repel,compression of the sun is already underway.
The moon is expanding away
and the universe is accelerating away faster than expected,these are not made up.
Checkup the speed the sun is traveling through the galaxy
Carbon and all minerals are made from dying stars and spreads throughout the cosmos ,and is absorbed at varies stages of sun,planets and galaxies gravitational cycles into the breach of the expanding universe,none of this is made up
Our planet expands and contracts through glacial periods,it is true,seriously.
The process of water absorbtion has slowed down but will increase during the glacial period and expand the planet once again and the evaporation process begins again,more clouds ,more rain ,more renewal,eventually the world will be a waterworld ,but as the sun ages and expands due to dying processes and the earths geomagnet recedes ,water will evaporate to space totally.Until then we will live on a planet freezing and heating toward the ultimate expansion period,our iceages.
The moon is moving away because of the expanding universe and because the moons mass cannot defy that energy,the earth can at a differential degree.
Earth moving 15 cms per year away from the sun ....sorry did ,I,You,everybody miss something,the planet is moving away,which means in the past it was closer to the sun...mmm,how could there be a iceage then ,it would naturally be warmer? Got the synapses firing now.edit on 13-3-2011 by gringoboy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Byrd
Remember the magnetic force is a weak force... much weaker than gravity.
Answer,reply en.wikipedia.org...
Electromagnetism is infinite-ranged like gravity, but vastly stronger, and therefore describes almost all macroscopic phenomena of everyday experience, ranging from the impenetrability of solids, friction, rainbows, lightning, and all human-made devices using electric current, such as television, lasers, and computers. Electromagnetism fundamentally determines all macroscopic, and many atomic level, properties of the chemical elements, including all chemical bonding.
Yes the expansion theory the way its discribed as watching the animation is over simplistic but my perspective is as stated the expansion of the earth through the process of ice age,expansion of freezing water and therefore expansion of crust in cycles over millional,in otherwords the crust is and was thicker and is being stretched outward ,overtime revealing and releasing magma .During iceage periods the earth accumalates more water and expansion on melting and release of the h20 from its solid state to fluidity add to that the moons pull overtime..
I am aware of the procession cycle and yes it to can and does play its part along with other factors as posted, this is my viewpoint,even though to some extent subjective in the context to the topic ,these variables have not been considered ontop of current thinking..
Currently there is a sea developing in ethiopia that was`nt there beforeblogs.discovermagazine.com...
Now a new study adds weight to the argument that the opening of this crack marks the first step in the formation of a new sea that may eventually separate East Africa from the rest of the continent. Says lead researcher Atalay Ayele: “The ocean’s formation is happening slowly, likely to take a few million years. It will stretch from the Afar depression (straddling Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti) down to Mozambique” [ABC News].
andapatheticlemming.blogspot.com...
A new study involving an international team of scientists and reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the processes creating the rift are nearly identical to what goes on at the bottom of oceans, further indication a sea is in the region's future. "The same rift activity is slowly parting the Red Sea, too...." Seafloor spreading, continental drift, and other changes of Earth's surface over time have been observed - and accepted - for some time now. My most geologists, at any rate. What's surprising, apparently, is how abruptly this crack formed. "...'We know that seafloor ridges are created by a similar intrusion of magma into a rift, but we never knew that a huge length of the ridge could break open at once like this,' said Cindy Ebinger, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester and co-author of the study...." This is the sort of thing that keeps life from getting boring. And keeps us on our toes: "...The result shows that highly active volcanic boundaries along the edges of tectonic ocean plates may suddenly break apart in large sections, instead of in bits, as the leading theory held. And such sudden large-scale events on land pose a much more serious hazard to populations living near the rift than would several smaller events, Ebinger said...."
Thanks gringoedit on 16-3-2011 by gringoboy because: (no reason given)
This statement is untrue in current physics,the electromagnetic force is much stronger than gravity
Yes the expansion theory the way its discribed as watching the animation is over simplistic but my perspective is as stated the expansion of the earth through the process of ice age,expansion of freezing water and therefore expansion of crust in cycles over millional,in otherwords the crust is and was thicker and is being stretched outward ,overtime revealing and releasing magma .
The people who support the plate tectonic drift theory and pretend that it is anything more than a theory continue to ignore the far bigger holes in the theory, that fails to explain -
1. What causes the continents to drift? It can't be the the formation of ridges in in the oceans, because new ocean floor is being formed throughout all of the oceans. /quote]
The continents do not drift. The continents are moved because they are imbedded in plates. The plates are moved by the underlying mantle convection cells.
2. How does the continental plates force the ocean plates down into the much denser mantle. This makes no sense at all, and completely defies all laws of physics. The continents plowing across the pacific, supposedly decreasing the size of the Pacific Ocean, for which there is absolutely no proof, leave no large piles of rubble neither in front of the continents which should be pushed up as the continental plate grinds its way across the pacific, or behind in its wake. Take a sheet of plywood, weigh it down and pull it across some ground. You will see material build up in front of the sheet and a trail left behind. This does not exist, in fact just the opposite. Out in front of the American continents stretches wide smooth plains.
Where do I begin with all of this confusion? The continents do not plow across the surface of the Earth. That is continental drift. Plate tectonics has the continents imbedded in plates and the plates are in motion. Why can't a lighter material be forced into a denser material. I am not saying that that is the case, but why not? There are no laws of physics that prevent that. And yes there is proof that the Pacific plate is getting smaller. Japan moved closer to the US during this quake. Direct measurements after this last quake show that the Pacific plate is smaller. Your plywood model is an invalid model. The plates are not as rigid as you suggest. There are no gaps between the plates as you suggest. There are boundaries between the plates. These boundaries can be turbulent zones where plates bend and are forced down.
3. Where does the ocean plate go once pushed down into the mantle. Almost all of the mass if the tectonic plates exists below the sea floor, . The continents should either rise 13-14 KM, or the mantle must somehow carry away 13-14 KM of material, and for some explained reason carry this extra material out to the ocean ridges,.How and why would this happen. It is a ridiculous idea. How is it that the pacific plate getting pushed under N America, finds its way under all the N American plates, to rise up under the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
The plate is heated and "melts" back into the mantle. There is no reason to suppose that the continents should rise for any reason. The continents are imbedded in the plates. The mantle is plastic. It deforms. It has distinct properties that separate it from the core and crust. Your suggestion that the plates do some weird tricks from subduction zone to spreading ridge suggests that you should get some knowledge about the theory before discussing it.
While widely accepted the fact of the matter is that there is no evidence to support the tectonic floating plate theory, and far more evidence to support the expanding Earth theory, that has been presented here. Those who support the floating tectonic plate theory provide no evidence to explain the huge flaws in what they believe.
The only flaw here is your understanding of plate tectonics. Your suggestions as to what the theory states about plates and plate interactions and the mantle make it clear that you need to take the time to learn how plate tectonics works. There are many good books available at public libraries.
Originally posted by gringoboy
This statement is untrue in current physics,the electromagnetic force is much stronger than gravity
Originally posted by gringoboy
reply to post by poet1b
Well.here goes it
1.New ocean floor is being stretched by additional water from melting icecaps ,not due to global warming in the goretex sense but a fundamental component of the earths cycles in the expanding meduim of space,due to this increase volume of water the moon has greater affect to stretch the ocean floor as it to is being forced by the expanding universe,tugging the volume of water on earth ,hence stretching the crust !
2.There is no physics law defied ,infact they compliment each other by way of the moons gravitational perturberance of the volume of water ontop of the whole surface with only 1 thirds dry land.
3.The oceans cannot rise in the observable sense as the volume of water is constantly moving,and the sheer weight and energy of the ocean of water ,defies mountains to rise and subduction in ocean floor as you explained,although everybody and his cat knows the sea levels are rising
maybe historical accounts of flooding are more evidence of water being part of the whole picture of expansion,
from melting periodal icecaps and re iceingt as I postulate in this thesis of new paradigm,when water freezes it expands,ergo...moving any rock,crust,expanding it,then melting and the moon does the rest by pulling the excess volume of water,so it is a continual process.contraction ,expansion,yes quite truly mother earth is allways giving birth.
Yes ,to volcanic,and meteor interaction play there part but so does the suns solar cycle variation,which currently is being observed as a complete oddity
and time will reveal the true extent of changes that occur to sol(solomon),sun. By the way venus transits the sun (sol)once only every 120 years and so be it I give you the morning star ,for anyone who knows what this implies.