Three cheers for Joe Meert for nipping this in the bud and warning
unsuspecting members of our community about Ethan's habits!
At 23:52 4.3.2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Ethan,
>
> Of course drift rates fluctuate over time. However, absurd calculations
>such as those made by John Baumgardner in his Noachian flood model are not
>realistic. Anyone can plug unreal numbers into a model and get an answer,
>but those answers have little to do with reality. India, largely a
>continental landmass was attached to a large old oceanic plate and moved at
>speeds of ~20 cm/year max on its n-ward journey towards Asia. There are
>indications of large plates moving at minimum speeds of over 20 cm/year near
>the end of the Proterozoic, but there is some debate about those as well.
>In the Neoproterozoic case, the fast drift rates lasted about 15 million
>years and likely resulted from the heat build up beneath a large continental
>lid; however, other causes have been postulated (see Meert et al., 1993;
>Kirschvink et al., 1997; Evans, 1998; Meert, 1999) for further discussion.
>Under no circumstances do mantle conditions or earth conditions allow for
>meter/hour speeds needed in the Noachian flood model of Baumgardner. In
>short, creationists like Baumgardner, put garbage in their models and get
>garbage in return.
>
>Cheers
>
>Joe Meert
>
>PS: For those who don't know Ethan, he is a creationist
>http://www.scientificcreationism.org/
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tectonics & structural geology discussion list
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ethan Sudman
>Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 6:54 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Maximum rate of continental drift
>
>
>Hello everyone.
>
>I have been wondering this for some time, and after consideration decited
>that it would be an appropriate question for this list. Basically, is there
>any theoretical maximum rate of continental drift? If so, what is it? Also,
>how quickly can the rate of continental drift fluctuate? Is there any
>theoretical limit to the rate of continental drift fluctuation?
>
>Thank you in advance for your time.
>Ethan Sudman
>
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