Re: PLATE MAPS OF THE PAST

From: Carsten Troelsgaard (carsten.troelsgaard_at_mail.dk)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:53:17 +0200

" George" <george@george.net> skrev i en meddelelse
news:_0gLc.2388$QO.2374@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
>
> "Carsten Troelsgaard" <carsten.troelsgaard@mail.dk> wrote in message
> news:40fce57b$0$282$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk...
> >
> > "don findlay" <don@tower.net.au> skrev i en meddelelse
> > news:5f164087.0407191750.7c4fe54e@posting.google.com...
> >> " George" <george@george.net> wrote in message
> > news:<UkRKc.302$%S4.241@bignews1.bellsouth.net>...
> >
> > snip
> >
> >> <http://users.indigo.net.au/don/ee/ridgegrowth.html#s0s>]
> >
> > snip
> >
> >> Check out the Abusal Hills, and the scarps, and the
> >> growth faults, and then tell us all what the dykes are feeding...
> >> Lava flows?
> >
> > I've checked out your link.
> > I don't see any issues with PT, unless you try to make the appearance of
> > magnetic contours a diacronous affair. Your figure 2 seems to let the
> > surface of the atlantic fit into the opening gap and thus gets it's
magnetic
> > signature by stretching the thing. And you wonder why George think that
you
> > are wearing down your credibillity! Who wouldn't? Turning people mute by
> > sheer quantity of information seems to be your strategy - that it
generally
> > lack reason does not disturbe you the least, on the contrary: another 15
> > pages will do the trick.
> >
>
> As someone else said recently in this newsgroup, "Generating a 5 dollar
opinion
> supported by a nickel's worth of data is
> stupid in ANY context. It's called "wild speculation", and it has NO
place in
> what is supposed to be a scientific discussion." What say you, Carlsten?

It could make a big difference. Making a new model as Don does is admirable,
but it sooner or later has to face geological reality.
Popping a suggestion as above could be ok, but either I get it wrong or it
just is wrong. I cann't figure Don out though - it seems to be a very
extensive joke, if that is what it is.

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