andRemeber the mammoths and tree muck deposits in Alaska and Siberia are heaped up ,mangled and variously torn apart or preserved pristinely in ice.
Would we not then expect to find similar heaps of animals at all latitudes and positions on the Earth, rather than just in the northern latitudes? Are all these heaps oriented in the same direction? I'm not ruling out an axis shift per se.I can think of no better explanation than axis shift.
Elevation in the Andes
31 Jul 2010
Along the coastline of South America there are a series of well known stranded beaches which indicate changes in sea level - or seismic shifts. The idea that mountain building in the Andes was recent was popular at one stage because Lake Titicaca, for example, was formerly located at a much lower altitude, it was thought, as it had been a coastal lagoon. A few years ago, Lonnie Thompson took cores from the Quelcaya mountain glacier (see earlier post on In the News) in Peru and discovered that in 3200BC the region was suddenly elevated and plants that normally grow way below the current horizon were frozen in situ instantly, as when the same glacier began to recede as a result of modern warming the plants emerged intact. A connection was then made with Oetzi in the Alps. He was suddenly frozen and preserved in the ice - at precisely the same point in time. The question is - was there a mountain building episode at this time? The geology is explicit - no, there was not. What other explanation can there be? The clue may lie in Paul Dunbavin's book, Atlantis in the West (available from the SIS book service) in which a small change in the axis of rotation may have occurred around 3200BC, and the Mid Holocene Warm Period may correspond with a slightly more upright tilt of the earth. Hence, the initial change may have occurred at around 6200BC (as an even bigger change in sea level is associated with that date), and the raised beaches around the coastline of South America may simply mark the change in geoid as the ocean waters realigned themselves. The simplicity of the explanation is what is attractive as it does not require massive tectonic forces at work. It also indicates Lake Titicaca was a coastal lagoon before 6200BC. Changes in the geoid result in some regions becoming submerged (sinking) and other regions rising up (elevation), so while South America appears to have been rising up out of the sea the continental shelf system around NW Europe and NE America was drowning. What about the Alps? Now, it just so happens they occur on the line Dunbavin draws between areas sinking and those that are rising, with four quarters. Hence, one part of the northern hemisphere sank and another part of it rose up, and the same would be true in the southern hemisphere where in fact the process is more pronounced as the continental land mass is spread out and smaller overall in comparison to the ocean. In SE Asia for example, the Sunda and Sahul continental shelf systems were submerged - at what appears to be roughly the same time the stranded beaches occur in South America. This post was prompted by the previous one in which tectonic processes appear to be inadequate to explain the raised beach phenomenon. It is of course not something that fits too easily into the idea of a smooth sea level curve, a gentle raising and lowering of sea level due to small processes at work in the natural world. However, it is a process that may account for the more rapid and dramatic rises in sea level as proposed by Rhodes Fairbridge.
SIS "In the News" - Elevation in the Andes
ElecGeekMom wrote:One more thought about the frozen mammoths...wouldn't they have to have been subjected to a dry "flash freeze" event?
Snow can operate like insulation, so I am not imagining a large dump of snow, but a sudden exposure to temperatures cold enough to flash-freeze a large, hairy animal fast enough to deactivate the enzymes in its mouth and thereby preserve a delicate flower contained therein.
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the artic and antartica have a natural circuit running between them, the Van Allen radiation belts. the inner belt is protons (+pos) and the outer belt is electrons (-neg). do the Van Allen radiation belts provide the natural circuit for earths natural fridge freezer?
earths natural electrical fridge freezer circuit?
And so is it the lightning in the thunderstorm that causes the transition?
The downstream gas temperature variation of radio frequency (13.56 MHz) electrodeless discharges is measured as a function of power, gas flow rate and pressure. The gas temperature is seen to increase linearly with power but shows a drastic drop at the point where glow discharge plasma shifts to the plasmoid state. The drop in temperature is assumed to be due to the dissipation of energy which leaves the localized plasmoid. The variation of gas temperature is found to follow a relationship similar to that of the gas residence time in the discharge region with changing flow rate and pressure.
Cooling with microwave excited micro-plasma and ions
Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention uses an actuator, which is actuated by electromagnetic microwave. The actuator is used to generate the micro-plasma and ions. The configurations of actuators may be microstrip lines structure, stripline structure, piping structure, multiplayer traces and electrodes structure, waveguide structure, and cavity structure. The generated micro-plasma and ions will induce a local turbulent gas flow and the flow is to carry the heat away from the surfaces of the heat sink fins. The actuators may be coupled to heat sink fins, heat transferring pipes, cooling fans, and heat sources in varied configurations. (end of abstract)
Some of my own speculations, there are at least two bulges, one in the hydrosphere and one in the lithosphere. I would think that the hydrospheric bulge would move easily (creating nightmarish floods) with any disruption of the rotation or displacement of the axis of rotation. The lithospheric bulge would be much more rigid, possibly acting as a stabilizer for the axis of rotation, making any displacement temporary or minor.Starbiter, if the rotational axis shifts its equatorial region shifts with it, so why would the equatorial bulge migrate? Or were you referring to a shift of the magnetic axis causing the equatorial bulge to move??
Exactly! The frozen mammoths are bigger problem then is realized, even by many catatrophists. The digestive process for an animal as large as an elephant continues for many hours after death, yet the contents of the stomachs of some of the specimens have undigested flora in their stomachs. Freezing must have been sudden, very sudden. Furthermore the undigested stomach contents of several of the mammoth specimens are of plants that do not grow in the Arctic circle. (But, we digress as this thread concerns the antipodal area of the globe.) Anyway, for anyone interested I would recommend The Extinction of the Mammoth (1997) by Charles Ginenthal.Sparky, regardless of what killed the mammoths, flashfreezing must occur in order to preserve their ingested flora from bacterial decay. It must happen so soon that wouldn't whatever caused the flashfreezing also cause the death of the elephant?
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