Re: Get the geological momentum going



don findlay wrote:
> Stop fudging Gerald. Call a plate a plate. It takes more than
> 'crustal segment' to be a plate. They have to **MOVE** to be a plate
> if you're going to talk platespeak. Just breaking the crust up doesn't
> make plates. They have to sail about, and crash and crumple, ...and
> cycle. If you're going to concede plates to these nitwits then you
> have to talk the whole deal. The crust can't be just a little bit
> 'plated'. It's **Movement** defines 'plates', not broken crust, and
> the 'movement' you're talking about due to differential rotation
> defines the twist/ spiral I'm talking about (due to differential
> rotation). OK we both agree thiers due to convection is nonsense.
> (And it's GROWTH by the way, not movement.) (in the mantle at least)
> (movement in the crust is fine)
>

Stick with EE if you wish ,differential rotation or a different flow
in the sub-crustal regions between Equatorial and polar latitudes is
strictly a means to link the feature of Equatorial bulge with the
component plates and their motion

Even in outlines it is a specific solution to a conflict which
currently exists in terms of Equatorial bulge explained one way and
crustal tectonic motion explained by another means (convection
cells).It is easy to work with differential rotation on both features
without having to jump to huge and unecessary conclusions.

The politically saavy would know that I have done enough to present it
as a stand-alone proposal and without the need to qualify it further or
indeed having to answer any objection such as yours.The traditional
avenues by which these things are accepted are presently unreliable and
unstable,at least where the Earth's motions are concerned or many
people are not doing their jobs and live off trivia.To get back to
doing their jobs,men will have to reconcile the terrestial surface
feature of the Equatorial bulge with component plates.

The tendency,through analogy of observed differential rotation,is that
differential rotation is a workable mechanism for both which requires
the dropping or moving away from convections cells.Plain statement with
fairly large consequences.If neccessary I will come back and refresh
the points but it should'nt really need this.








> Stuartie'll tell you if you ask him, except he's rattled. After all
> his life plugging it and being Georged around in his buggy, he can't
> believe convection is the bull*** others are beginning to say. He's
> still playing with his question soup.

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