Please buy yourself a book, even a very basic one, on geology.
As a bonus, I also post a picture of the rolling mountains.......
That was almost rude enough to be offensive.
If it was not ludicrous enough to give me a fit of giggles.
Do you really think you will find ANY book that has a decent interpretation of the reality of geology?
My father is a genius Oxford trained geologist, with a huge library btw.
By the age of ten I had absorbed his geology books, driven him crazy by questioning everything, and had extensive theoretical understanding of the paradigm believed at the time of his degree, and years of core drilling and analysis experience as his assistant. We lived on a landmass about 200kmx 50km that in an ancient, probably catastrophic deglaciation event had been tipped off a continental shelf, and block inverted with all the strata now upside down. Before being uplifted by the largest submarine Flood Basalt Province recognised on the planet being thrust underneath it.
This and three estimated 1 km high Tsunami in the last 40kA sweeping over the whole region are common knowledge to our govt scientists now. Clear to us in the 1980s. But in no books or published papers.
Understanding of geology is a fast changing picture from what we observe. But the consensus career goals and politics of academia mire it down.
For example a few months ago was published the seismic interferometry results showing that what is usually referred to as the Iceland hotspot is in fact a small branch from a deep fluid basalt plume that has other branches to Jan Mayen, Svalbard, and a major one to central Greenland. Very likely not the only branches of the system to make surface. Does anyone understand the ramifications of this? Perhaps observing the tiny flood Basalt ongoing in Iceland might help. Recognise that it is hydraulically connected to these other volcanic Islands, through the non-viscous root system. And observe it laying an impermiable sheet across landscapes of porous ash and till.
Thank you however for taking the time to falsify what was seemingly apparent on the comparison of two images I attempted an animation of. Gold medal to you for guts and not resorting to reptile brain kill the threat to worldview without pause to rationalize.
Many of the world's top geologists are emphatic that plate tectonics is a stop start process driven by glaciation/deglaciation events when you talk to them privately. Unfortunate that they commit suicide with their career if they don't keep parroting the circa 1960s uniformitarian line.
Sorry for the OTs Oren. I felt it called for by the amusing suggestion that I should read a basic book on geology.
I would still like to stimulate some discussion on the apparent movements on the East Coast. That area is most threatening to large population groups. Will do it on an appropriate thread. I have a paper somewhere that analyse the collapse of the Antarctic peninsula ice sheet, circa 10000 b.p and shows the timescales, results to the bed over the now open ocean 600km expanse of shelf it cleared. I will try and dredge it out for those who want to understand real geology, not like found in books written to not scare the children.
