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Article: <5fpe6a$81f@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: TUNGUSKA
Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:02:18 GMT
In article <5fn6ei$11b6@news.ccit.arizona.edu> Jim
Scotti writes:
> Tunguska, Siberia was not recently at a lower latitude. ...
> The rotational pole of the Earth shifts very slowly over
very
> long timescales, not just a few thousand years to match your
> frozen mastodon theory. It is the plate tectonic drifts
which
> case small shifts in the location of the pole and big shifts
in
> what land mass is located at the pole and that takes
hundreds
> of thousands or millions of years.
> jscotti@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Jim Scotti)
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
Throw out the evidence and cling to something comfortable, right
Jim? Continental drift is a poor word for something that happens
violently. Ever try to rip apart a phone book, much less a
continent? And how about shoving plates of rock up and over one
another, thousands of feet high. In the memory of modern man, who
deals with Richter Scale earthquakes of 9+ at most, has there
been anything that would shear rock to produce the cliffs at
Yosemite, or rise the Himalayas? In your scenario, there would be
RESISTANCE to such plate movements that would PREVENT them from
happening! Unless the movement was forced, set into motion and
then given a sudden STOP.
As you say, its not the fall that hurts, its the sudden stop
at the end of the fall.
(End ZetaTalk[TM])
Time for an apt quote from Velikovsky.
........
Earth in Upheaval, pp 70-72, Mountains and Rifts
The age of a rock formation is ascertained with the help of the fossils it contains. To the surprise of many scientists, it was found that mountains have traveled - older formations have been pushed over on top of younger ones.
Chief Mountain in Montana is a massif standing several thousand feet above the Great Planes. It has been thrust bodily upon the much younger strata of the Great Planes, and then driven over them eastward, for a distance of at least 8 miles. Chief Mountain in Montana traveled across the plains and climbed the slopes of another mountain and settled on top of it. By similar thrusting, the whole Rocky Mountain Front, for hundreds of miles, has been pushed up and then out, many miles over the plains. Such titanic displacement of mountains have been found in many places on the earth. The entire length of the Norwegian mountains showed a similar overthrust. The displacement of the Alps is especially extensive. During the building of the Alps gigantic slabs of rock, thousands of feet thick, hundreds of miles long, and tens of miles wide, were thrust up and then over .. the rocks beneath. The direction of the relative overthrusting movement was from Africa toward the main mass of Europe on the north. The Alps were shoved a hundred miles to the north.
The problem of mountain-making is a vexing one. Geologists have not yet found a satisfactory escape from this dilemma. The origin of the mountains is not explained, and still less is their thrust or shift across valleys and over other mountains. What could have caused these mountains to travel across valleys and uphill with their masses of granite weighing billions of tons? No force acting from inside the earth, pulling inward or pushing outward, could have created these overthrusts. Only twisting could have produced them.