Island arcs

[folaht]

Why do inverted dendrite clouds seem to form mostly/only over the islands and coastline in this picture?

[Grey Cloud]

Hi sluimers,
Where is it an image of?

[bdw000]

Mountainous uplifts, compression of the lithosphere, trenching, cracking, folding, tilting and other deformations in the Earth's surface are most likely not due to incremental changes over hypothetical million-year time spans.

I would suggest not making this an either/or decision.

It has long been my opinion that the debate between catastrophic and uniformitarian views ignore the most likely scenario: that BOTH probably can and do occur. Evidence for one in no way logically rules out the possibility of the other occurring in some other place or time.

Isn't the Atlantic seafloor slowly spreading apart now?

Aren't the Himalaya's slowly rising right now?

Opponents are always quick to jump on careless use of language as if that is your whole argument.

[Osmosis]

The Aleutian Islands

[Grey Cloud]

The Aleutian Islands

Thought it may have been. Is the white not snow then?

Edit: Doh! Just seen the TPOD.

[StefanR]

Why do inverted dendrite clouds seem to form mostly/only over the islands and coastline in this picture

I personally think it might be a little too cold for inverted dendrite clouds. Snow?

[seasmith]

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Rising up^
Moist and relatively warm ocean air ^ over the dendritic ravines and valley faces,
cooling and condensing towards the peaks ??

~s~

[webolife]

That stuff is snow, following the dendritic altitudinal contours of the mountain peaks/valleys.

Mountainous uplifts, compression of the lithosphere, trenching, cracking, folding, tilting and other deformations in the Earth's surface are most likely not due to incremental changes over hypothetical million-year time spans.

I would suggest not making this an either/or decision.

It has long been my opinion that the debate between catastrophic and uniformitarian views ignore the most likely scenario: that BOTH probably can and do occur. Evidence for one in no way logically rules out the possibility of the other occurring in some other place or time.

Isn't the Atlantic seafloor slowly spreading apart now?

Aren't the Himalaya's slowly rising right now?

Opponents are always quick to jump on careless use of language as if that is your whole argument.

I totally agree, and have espoused a similar framework in teaching "my own" catastrophic model of earth history.
This framework is based on the simple premise that the truth is not discovered by debating who has the best evidence, rather by recognizing the connection of all of the evidence. having said that, the premise of uniformitarianism is that current slow processes have acted "uniformly" throughout earth history. A modified version of this, called rather snobbishly "actualism", recognizes that in the uniformitarian framework, occasional dramatic catastrophes occur. My own view is that catastrophic processes shaped the earth in the past, left their "footprints", and can be recalled by looking at the much more "gradual" versions of those processes happening today. With that frame, I would say the seafloor spread very rapidly in the past, hit a "wall" so to speak, and crawled to a near halt today growing at a rate of about a fingernail's pace.
Likewise, the Himalayas rose rapidly [there is historic evidence for this], now are slowly rising somewhat faster perhaps than the drift of the continents... also the ice "epoch" started quickly, lasted a matter of years, slowed over centuries, and we see it slowly diminishing today.

[seasmith]

webolife wrote:

That stuff is snow, following the dendritic altitudinal contours of the mountain peaks/valleys.

Either / Or.
No argument there.
The snow falls where the clouds form, which i've watched countless times from the air above.

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