moses wrote:......... Of course there is also the possibility of there being horizontal compressing forces in the
process, which will fold the land into hills. I guess it is extremely challenging to reproduce such effects in miniature.
Cheers,
Mo
The variety of moutains seen around the world calls for a high level of imagination in both
experimentation and evaluation.. If you haven't yet seen a simple experiment to show
how horizontal conpression forces can be created to cause folding and shearing try the
experiment with a hard boiled egg suggested earlier and elsewhere.. It somewhat
replicates the Hydroplate scenario and might also conplement factors associated with
other perspectives where stresses are caused by bodies in close proximity..
Our planet's initial crust was most likely formed under different conditions than those
which existed in historical times and even now. Its fragile exterior, the crust, is by
comparison, 5 times thinner than the shell of a chicken egg and with this object we
can replicate what would happen if the crust, under greater stress by external forces were
to be compromised by as little as a single point of driven force.. A crustal-wide sequence
of failure might result..
The experiment with a boiled egg, clenched tighlty in the hand or by other means, is
smacked with a knuckle of the other hand to cause single-point failure...Some clenching
force is maintained and then released once you see how the shell has moved on the
fluid layer beneath the shell... A pressure chamber of fluid and gas may produce a more
accurate simulation,, but the handheld version of this experiment should be sufficied
to open up lines of thought once you see the similarities produced.
An uncommon practice in science is to look for simple solutions,, this, in part, may have
more to do with job security or intelectual-security than it does with the actual complexities...
Once i started breaking boiled eggs by this method i never had reason to doubt the
likelyhood of sudden and extreme lateral motion producing overthrust and folding,
just as proposes by the hydroplate theory .. d...z
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