Re: Owen's Two-Phase Model of Earth Expansion

From: don findlay (don_at_tower.net.au)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: 26 Feb 2005 14:59:06 -0800

Stuart wrote:
> Matt wrote:

> > Possible, but speculative. A bit EE-like, don't you think? See,
> > we're in the same boat when it comes to the Earth's heat engine.
>
> No we are not.

Yes we are. Both of them need an energy input to account for the
deformation on the scale we are seeing. Differentiation of the Earth
into a core mantle and a crust = the planet's Formation. What we are
seeing = the planets *DE*-formation.

> The Earth's heat engine has several mechanisms. Secular cooling of
the
> mantle and core, latent heat of fusion release in the core,
> radioactivity in the mantle and core, tidal disspation in the mantle
> and core.
>
>
> And your mechanism for the Earth's expansion is?

...inscripted in the rotational symmetry of the crustal deformation of
the Earth, which removes it entirely from being a result of internal
indigestion (convection), and which points to it being linked to the
present-day, first-order deformation of the planet, namely its ambital
bulge.

You have to explain how:-
1. without a subsequent heat input, the initial differentiated layering
of the Earth into a core, mantle and a crust (by the dissipation of its
heat) can be upset by 'convection' that has extruded mantle to the
extent of two thirds of the planet, formed mountain belts, and pulled
that differentiated crust apart - and done all of that without any
subsequent heat input.
2. How all the deformation of the crust, which is 'torsional-symmetric'
with the ambital bulge, relates to convection.
3. Why the energy release related to brittle "downgoing slabs" is so
much greater (and the greater the more depth) than the energy release
in brittle transform faults that delivers all this mantle crust to the
subduction zone.
4. Why the ambital bulge exists at all (in a convectional framework)
and what is its past geological expression.

..before you start pointing the finger at mechanism for expansion,
which observation makes plain it doesn't have a mechanism. You're the
'physicist' around here. Who knows, if you start asking some
questions Stuart, you might help people find some answers, instead of
being such a dog-in-the- Plate Tectonic -manger.

All is not well in the State of Plate Tectonics, and it needs more than
your finger plugging the hole.

Your call.

> <snip>
>
> Stuart

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Axioms rescued from previous thread
    ... THE THIRD COMMANDMENT:- WHAT GRAVITY FORMED, ... Consensus believes that the differentiation of the Earth into a core ... the release of heat by decay of radioactive elements. ... participants driving any mantle processes. ...
    (sci.geo.geology)
  • Re: Axioms rescued from previous thread
    ... THE THIRD COMMANDMENT:- WHAT GRAVITY FORMED, ... Consensus believes that the differentiation of the Earth into a core ... the release of heat by decay of radioactive elements. ... participants driving any mantle processes. ...
    (sci.physics)
  • Re: Owens Two-Phase Model of Earth Expansion
    ... >> conduction to an outer layer is replaced with heat produced by more ... >> the temperature would rise and reverse the phase change. ... > differentiation of the planet into a core, mantle and a crust that we ...
    (sci.geo.geology)
  • Re: Owens Two-Phase Model of Earth Expansion
    ... >> There are different possibilities for conversion of core to mantle. ... >> One is that a heating process within the core causes lighter elements ... >> neither is the PT heat mechanism worked out, ...
    (sci.geo.geology)
  • Re: Axioms rescued from previous thread
    ... THE EARTH ONCE FORMED A PANGLOBAL GRANITIC CRUST ... > shells were mantle and core. ... > the earth's crust is extruded mantle. ...
    (sci.geo.geology)