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Doug Thanks again for working with me on this. >> But your theory does not seem explain deep quakes at subduction zones<< The "subduction zone" (on both sides of the location where the crust was removed) is where the liquids were moving out from under the continents as they settled downward as the earth's components sought balance again. This is the deepest longest plate interface that the earth has…the gravitational adjustments take place deep here. >>the "tape recording" of magnetic flipflops in the sea floor on either side of spreading ridges,<< I puzzled over this…it is obvious that the earths field was changing during the formation of this area…. say the catastrophe upset the magnetic field generator, say an iron core that lost a portion of its mass and was out of balance for a period of time causing it to flip untill it resycronised with the earths rotation again..the current motion of the magnetic field may be a remnant of this destablised period. >> radioactive dating of sea floor rocks,<< I have not resolved this yet but …give me time. >> _consistent_ relative movements of hot spots (consider Hawaii), and how these lines of evidence hang together as well as they do (Hawaii indicates the same motions as spreading and subduction zones indicate, or paleomagnetism, etc.).<< The hot spots could be moving under a fixed plate. >> Lead me to a limestone on the Moon and I will revise my thinking, but until you do, I will believe the aforementioned observations. << I wished I could… and one day we will revisit the moon and I believe that there will be not only limestone but a geological table there that will prove the moon was once part of the earth. I know that there is a tremendous amount of work done to prove plate tectonics. The process of proving something will discard data that doesn't work towards the goal. When it was discovered that the Ocean Basins were "new" and without any geological table or deep sedimentary beds the only possibility became that they were new and all the geological history of the earth needed to be revised or prove somehow that they were being renewed or consumed. There still remains the mystery of how the process got started…. and what happened to the rest of the geological crust. The earth should have formed into a smooth ball with some wrinkling due to cooling. Then the geological table was built up over time on top of this cooled crust. Now the continental crust is in sections with over half missing. >> spreading ridges retain their integrity when staggered by transform faults << The rise remains balanced on the flanks.. that is equalateraly.. this is very tough for the push…if the convection zone is strong enough to push the continents apart it would not move with the fault. If pulling is going on then why would the rise be balanced….it would be more productive on the pulled side showing more new crust. By the way there is some evidence that the life forms found in the sediments changes with the supposed age of the area… the further from the rise the older the fossil are….this is tough one for me…but working on it. Merry Christmas to you and all Kamron