Re: Really interesting paleogeographic map suggests ocean basins opening and closing repeatedly in the same place?


"J. Taylor" <nchiwana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Dec 31, 11:48 am, "George" <Geo...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Florian" <auxotectonics_deletethis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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George <Geo...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

By the way, PT doesn't say that the plates move randomly.

Idiot; In this case, PT could approximatively predict where the
craton
were 500 My ago just from the age of ocean floor.

PT doesn't say that the plates move randomly.

PT can't predict the path of lithospheric chunks over 1 billions years
from current distribution. Unpredictable movement is pretty close to
random movement.

Wrong. Lots of things happen to rocks over the course of a billion years.
Most of the time, the rocks are destroyed. Your argument appears to be
very
closely related to the argument creationists make when they claim that
there
are no tranistional fossils. If PT can't make definite predictions over
sizable chunks of geologic time as to exactly how plates will move, it is
because the Earth is a dynamic planet, and evidence is not always
preserved.
Having said that, it can make reasonable predictions about future
movements
within a limited time frame based on past and current movements:

http://www.scotese.com/future.htm

http://www.scotese.com/future1.htm

http://www.scotese.com/future2.htm


And they will be tested, how? Wait around a couple million years?

The record on the ocean floor does not show huge chucks of anything
missing, the only thing that needs for that to be true is that false
theory you cling to.

JT
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Actually, it does, or are you suggesting that such microplates as the
farallon plate have always had the volume they appear to have today? Also,
you are going to have a hard time explaining all that oceanic crust which
has sunk deep into the mantle along rhe central American coast and
elsewhere.

George


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