Re: A better working principle

oriel36 <kelleher.gerald@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Good for you,you want subduction for water generation

?? Whatever.

and don't want it for your balooning Earth.

If you mean by subduction, that odean floor is buried by overthrusting,
then that is ok. But if you believe that the seafloor is literally
plunging in the mantle, you have to be crazy.

Let me show you something:

<http://nachon.free.fr/GE/pacific/Philippines.jpg>

See the Mariana orocline (E145/N20) ? The front is arc-shaped and show
the direction of absolute motion. It is lithosphere pushed from below by
mantle upwelling so that it overrides older seafloor and lithosphere is
stretched at the back of the orocline thus forming a new ridge. These
oroclines are *Everywhere*.

If you can't figure it out, then change of discipline.

--
Florian
"Toute vérité passe par trois phases. D'abord, elle est ridiculisée;
ensuite, elle rencontre une vive opposition avant d'être acceptée comme
une totale évidence" - Arthur Schopenhauer
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