by johnm33 » Sun Mar 28, 2021 9:11 pm
"So how did the ice form so quickly?" My current thinking is that the Earth switched to a more distant orbit. If it moved from the vicinity of Venus that amounts to about 5kms ps of motion to convert to heat, since it briefly stopped spinning there's more to add. Not enouh to boil water but plenty to heat heavy metals to liquid, even if they were in complex minerals. I also think that incoming radiation reacts in/with the core to breakdown into both heavy elements and Hydrogen ions, after that pretty much agree with Larins geology,
http://hydrogen-future.com/images/larin-1993.pdf
Hydrogen percolates/percolated up from the core filling all the voids in minerals, once heated the hydrogen ions scavenged any oxygen atoms they were in contact with, the minerals were now suffused with supercritical water. This catalysed further reactions and since many of the newly formed minerals were porous highly reactive hydrides were created too this liberating more hydrogen ions creating powerful charges. These flowed in all directions, those that broke the surface carried minerals dissolved in supercritical water which literally exploded to grains as they met bar1. Where this newly formed water approached the surface it rapidly evaporated cooling the rocks which contained it to below 100C, the atmosphere expanded to ?twice three times? it's previous size.
Then the Earths motion returned the heat was scavenged as kinetic energy to serve as motion, the rocks which had been kept cool now froze, and the heavier elements which had been quickest to heat dropped to maybe -150C this freeze dried everthing in the vicinity, then the vapour in the atmosphere began to precipitate. Some of it fell on exposed areas where the mineral transformations had cracked open the surface exposing vast areas of recently metamorphosed rock and immediately evaporated again, some fell on already frozen terrain levelling up between frozen waves, leaving a pink layer as it cleared the dust from the air. Then further layers of precipitation fell which were clearer.
I suspect that the recent uptick in incoming radiation, remember 'steve', may be the cause of the even more recent uptick in volcanic activity. More hydrogen/charge generated at depth causing some exothermic reactions I also suspect that many mineral types supposed to have undergone hydrothermal metamorphosis are in fact mineral solutes extruded under great pressure as the cooling effect was happening. Certainly dolomites and serpentines are a good fit, but perhaps granite and basalts too were brought to the surface as supersaturated solutions in supercritical water.
"So how did the ice form so quickly?" My current thinking is that the Earth switched to a more distant orbit. If it moved from the vicinity of Venus that amounts to about 5kms ps of motion to convert to heat, since it briefly stopped spinning there's more to add. Not enouh to boil water but plenty to heat heavy metals to liquid, even if they were in complex minerals. I also think that incoming radiation reacts in/with the core to breakdown into both heavy elements and Hydrogen ions, after that pretty much agree with Larins geology, http://hydrogen-future.com/images/larin-1993.pdf
Hydrogen percolates/percolated up from the core filling all the voids in minerals, once heated the hydrogen ions scavenged any oxygen atoms they were in contact with, the minerals were now suffused with supercritical water. This catalysed further reactions and since many of the newly formed minerals were porous highly reactive hydrides were created too this liberating more hydrogen ions creating powerful charges. These flowed in all directions, those that broke the surface carried minerals dissolved in supercritical water which literally exploded to grains as they met bar1. Where this newly formed water approached the surface it rapidly evaporated cooling the rocks which contained it to below 100C, the atmosphere expanded to ?twice three times? it's previous size.
Then the Earths motion returned the heat was scavenged as kinetic energy to serve as motion, the rocks which had been kept cool now froze, and the heavier elements which had been quickest to heat dropped to maybe -150C this freeze dried everthing in the vicinity, then the vapour in the atmosphere began to precipitate. Some of it fell on exposed areas where the mineral transformations had cracked open the surface exposing vast areas of recently metamorphosed rock and immediately evaporated again, some fell on already frozen terrain levelling up between frozen waves, leaving a pink layer as it cleared the dust from the air. Then further layers of precipitation fell which were clearer.
I suspect that the recent uptick in incoming radiation, remember 'steve', may be the cause of the even more recent uptick in volcanic activity. More hydrogen/charge generated at depth causing some exothermic reactions I also suspect that many mineral types supposed to have undergone hydrothermal metamorphosis are in fact mineral solutes extruded under great pressure as the cooling effect was happening. Certainly dolomites and serpentines are a good fit, but perhaps granite and basalts too were brought to the surface as supersaturated solutions in supercritical water.