by johnm33 » Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:39 pm
BipedalJoe Hello Joe, I have a very different take to yours. The first part of the flood was a result of the Earths rotation slowing down, the oceans would have moved east and away from the equator, slowly at first but then building towards a large fraction of the tangential speed of rotation at their place of origin. Velikovsky has it happening over about a 36hr. period so at the equator 1,000mph/18= 55mph loss per hour, so about 1mph loss per minute almost unnoticable. But the conversion of that much movement would result in massive heat gain in the Earths crust, especially in heavy metals so wherever ore bodies were would rapidly get above 100c. If you take a look at what they found in the Kola hole, massive amounts of water at 180c and hydrogen "boiling" out of the mud, it suggests, to me, the plastic 'rock' very recently emerged from a supercritical water permeated layer beneath which was, I suggest, in the EZ state that Pollack describes. I suspect that the hydrogen freed in that state would permeate all the layers above it, there are hydrogen seeps elsewhere in Russia, and would 'harvest' the more reactive elements O,C,Si,Mg,Ca etc from their host minerals, and many of these reactions would be exothermic. Not just that though, if the hydrogen reacted with oxygen the 'mother' mineral would be permeated by again supercritical water dissolving any available solute and these liquids would expand towards and in many cases break the surface. So as a result of both kinetic conversion and exothermic reactions mineral rich fountains of steam would be bursting into the atmosphere. Some like silica would air-burst into sand/steam, some still reactive would form great steaming drifts of chalk/limestone/dolomite with peculiar flowing forms, i'm sure there'd be many others, china clay? but I'm no geologist.
In this way not only would the atmosphere be saturated but since much of the vapour would be steam then the magnitude of the atmosphere may have been doubled? trebled? How much expansion would such an event precipitate? Either way the tropics would be a steaming wasteland taking weeks to cool as rain recycled down on them, and the poles frozen wastes buried under ice and snow. Was there enough water 'liberated' to raise sea levels 100m? is an interesting question.
BipedalJoe Hello Joe, I have a very different take to yours. The first part of the flood was a result of the Earths rotation slowing down, the oceans would have moved east and away from the equator, slowly at first but then building towards a large fraction of the tangential speed of rotation at their place of origin. Velikovsky has it happening over about a 36hr. period so at the equator 1,000mph/18= 55mph loss per hour, so about 1mph loss per minute almost unnoticable. But the conversion of that much movement would result in massive heat gain in the Earths crust, especially in heavy metals so wherever ore bodies were would rapidly get above 100c. If you take a look at what they found in the Kola hole, massive amounts of water at 180c and hydrogen "boiling" out of the mud, it suggests, to me, the plastic 'rock' very recently emerged from a supercritical water permeated layer beneath which was, I suggest, in the EZ state that Pollack describes. I suspect that the hydrogen freed in that state would permeate all the layers above it, there are hydrogen seeps elsewhere in Russia, and would 'harvest' the more reactive elements O,C,Si,Mg,Ca etc from their host minerals, and many of these reactions would be exothermic. Not just that though, if the hydrogen reacted with oxygen the 'mother' mineral would be permeated by again supercritical water dissolving any available solute and these liquids would expand towards and in many cases break the surface. So as a result of both kinetic conversion and exothermic reactions mineral rich fountains of steam would be bursting into the atmosphere. Some like silica would air-burst into sand/steam, some still reactive would form great steaming drifts of chalk/limestone/dolomite with peculiar flowing forms, i'm sure there'd be many others, china clay? but I'm no geologist.
In this way not only would the atmosphere be saturated but since much of the vapour would be steam then the magnitude of the atmosphere may have been doubled? trebled? How much expansion would such an event precipitate? Either way the tropics would be a steaming wasteland taking weeks to cool as rain recycled down on them, and the poles frozen wastes buried under ice and snow. Was there enough water 'liberated' to raise sea levels 100m? is an interesting question.