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Re: Ping Pong Stuart Weinstein

Ye Old One <use...@mcsuk.net>

On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:35:50 -0700, don findlay <d...@tower.net.au>
enriched this group when s/he wrote:

>df wrote:-
>http://tinyurl.com/yu5xtd
>http://tinyurl.com/32zg52
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>Come on Stuart,  My world is falling apart, I thought I knew what
>Plate Tectonics was saying

Funny, but from all your posts to talk.origins it has become clear
that you never understood plate tectonics.

>but I didn't know it was like this.  Tell
>me Mr Bercovici is wrong and that the subducting slab is not pulling
>the world apart (because it's cold ) (because it's dense). The slab,
>that is.   Tell me the subducting slab doesn't  really drive Plate
>Tectonics after all.  

It is ONE of the driving mechanisms.

>  I always thought the earth being hot inside
>and making convection currents had something to do with it,

The do. In most cases they produce the lubrication.

> but now I
>learn, No, ..there is no need for potassium or any other 'um' in the
>core, ..that convection is a poloidal-toroidal motional thing, driven
>by the subducting slab, and the energy for driving is because the
>subducting slab is cold, ..that it sinks, ..dragging the whole ocean
>floor with it, creating pull-apart at the ridges, which are intruded
>by sheeted dyke swarms, because of partial melting, ... and transform
>faults cutting them as complementary results of slab-pull  half a
>world away, due to minimisation of stress release in toroidal
>flow., ..

>This is mind-blowing stuff.

I'm not surprised given you mental weakness.

[snip more Desperate Don crap.]

--
Bob.