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Hi, Kamron– >> There has been very little drilling into the mantle….I wonder if the cores that were taken were checked for this…? There is no need to reach the mantle, I am talking about seafloor crust here. As long as they have drilled a few hundred feet there, I would expect unexpected magnetic reversals within each core if your theory were correct (from when the crust formed during a time of super-fast reversals). >>But how is the situation wrong for moving hot spots? The fact that hot spots move (relative to crust) favors neither theory, yours or the standard plate tectonics. But in your theory, those motions should not correlate with postulated plate motions (since plate motions are imaginary in your theory). There should be more hotspots "moving" contrary to theoretical plate movements than with them. Can you name even one? >>the rotation of the earth would surly organize it into an equatorial alignment of some sort We are talking about mantle currents moving in millimeters per day (rotation) here; it is not obvious to me that Coriolis (rotation) effect would dominate such slow motions. >>For example boil lead and then slowly reduce the heat. It will cool into a very consistent mass. But what about the oxide (I assume) scum on top of the lead? Does it always spread out evenly over the surface, for all different surface area to volume ratios, all cooling rates, and all different atmospheres? Even if you check all the possibilities, it still could easily be different for granite scum on basalt. I see no reason to expect either clumping or non-clumping until someone actually starts melting and refreezing planet-sized rocks – it seems to me to be an adjustable parameter that may be taken to fit either theory equally well. >> the earth received water from other sources I believe the ices found throughout the solar system contain ammonia and cyanide as minor constituents. The arrival of such things would very likely have killed off all life. What about all the marine fossils from before your K-T catastrophe? I suspect many of them show adaptations to true oceans, not just shallow-sea features. I would need help from paleontologists to know how secure such interpretations are. –Doug