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Now thats something I know that you dont know....hehehe. Cold War is/was a veil for the spending of building underground/moon/mars DUMBS / respective space programs, by BOTH countries....and those little green men.
Originally posted by LightAssassin
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From the end of the Oligocene, and notably during the Early Miocene, the Earth entered a new phase of dynamo-tectonic unrest, and sea-level once more began to rise. An overall longer-term transgression was interrupted by a couple of sharp regressive events before a more substantial sea retreat occurred around 7-8 million years ago
According to Wrench Tectonics, sea-level variation is a direct consequence of ongoing Earth degassing with the attendant build-up of hydrostatic pressure in the upper mantle – causing oceanic crustal elevation and related transgression over lower-standing continental regions – intermittently punctuated by outbursts of pressurized asthenospheric gasses and gas-driven magma. On the North Atlantic continents, the mid-Miocene regressive events correlate with the origin of the Columbia River Basalt and with the Ries and Steinheim craters of S Germany – all having ages around 15 million years old. In the North Atlantic, the mid-Miocene tectono-magmatic event(s) affected broader regions of the ocean, including the Cape Verde Islands, Canary Islands, Madeira, the Azores and Iceland – involving the onset of Neogene volcanism in these regions.For the Macaronesian insular region (Canary Islands, Azores, etc) pre-volcanic tectonic uplifts, to heights of 400-500 m above sea level, are well established
(Mitchell-Thomé, 1976), and Neogene volcanic/intrusive activity is widespread elsewhere in the
Central Atlantic (cf Storetvedt, 1997).
In the Wrench Tectonics explanation, the principal mechanism behind the pulsating Earth history is
vertical mass transport and mantle/crust exchange processes – causing alterations in the planet’s
moment of inertia. Hence, the mid-Miocene Earth underwent a period of inertial instability after
which the relative equator was located across central Sahara and southern Arabian Peninsula
(Storetvedt, 1997 & 2003). The geological effects of such a dynamical shift can be recognized as
tectonic discordances and/or magmatic horizons – notably in palaeo-equatorial regions, features that
for example are readily spotted in the Neogene sedimentary succession of the Sinai Peninsula. In the
mid-Miocene latitudinal frame, the sub-tropical setting of the Mediterranean region is supported by
surprisingly shallow palaeomagnetic inclinations (e.g. Atzemoglou et al., 1994), and the attendant
heating trend proceeding northward in Europe is demonstrated by the mid-Miocene temperature peak
in North Sea sediments
Originally posted by Escrotumus
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