Re: Tectonic plates and seams

Aidan Karley <name1_name2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <1ies28e.g7axd04wr8poN%
auxotectonics_deletethis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Florian wrote:
Slab pull or Ridge push are unsupported assertions. Is it clearer now?

Are you denying that these forces exist?

Denying? are you kidding? Not only is there zero existence that they
exist, but they're are plenty evidence that they can't exist!
compression in a slab, weakness of the lithosphere... there is not even
a single evidence that the slab is plunging... during major earthquakes
there is always uplift of the overriding plate, and some subsidence
because of relaxation (*). The lower plate is passive and never moves.

(*) <http://nachon.free.fr/firstmotion/firstmotion.png>

What about "Oh, under the Tarim Basin. Wow, what a surprise."

You're talking about a descending slab, and you point at a paper
referring to a topographic low. Well what a surprise, that there's a
topographic low in the vicinity of a descending slab.

Whatever, this paper was cited to support that the lithosphere is too
weak to resist slab pull.

--
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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