CompuServe Messages

Doug Good visual on the magnets. Still tough to image one of the planets densest most brittle materials deforming without the temperature threshold being crossed. The shearing and rehealing process occuring on the microscopic level would be hard pressed to redistribute materials over hundreds of miles. The diverging and converging directions in the current theory require massive redistributions of materials. This would require accelerations of materials to accomplish the redistribution. It would surely result in visible cracks as the plates went through these material redistributions. We discussed how the ridge continues to telescope previous conditions into existing like the shift faults being maintained well after the shifting occurred. I expect to see this stitched into the area where the ridge sections stitched together. You could call into play the highly shifted section between Brazil and Africa, IT may have the history recorded there. >> I think they moved more apart than together – in Pangaea, S. America (Colombia) was up against what is now the _west_ coast of Mexico and C. America, which were folded up so there was no Caribbean separating them from N.America. Room had to open up between them for C. America to straighten up in; I believe it arose because N. America headed somewhat northwest while S. America went a little more west or southwest. << They were together in Pangaea. In the models I am looking at N. America & eurasia separated quite a bit from Gondwana(S. America & Africa) looks like more than a few thousands of miles 135 meg ago. This continued to separate to 5 or 6 thousand miles apart as late as 45 meg ago and only recently they are moving back together. I agree they were moved more together on the west side but the slight rotation (clockwise) that S. America pulled the carribean apart while compressing the pacific rim. If N. America got a 100 million year head start on moving away from europe then how did S. America not only catch up but pass N. America in the distance of spreading race in the Atlantic spreading? Kamron