Megalithic shipping and trade routes

[Mick Harper]

There is a difference between giant plates moving over millions of years (a process that cannot be observed and thus far has not been measured, despite early claims that it could) and earthquakes (a process that can be observed and measured). Geologists say the first causes the second which was at least a possibility when Plate Tectonic Theory was being put together.

But since earthquakes nowadays are mainly (wholly?) the result of fracking and not plates moving, (wherever both are a possibility) this causal connection is splitting apart at the seams. Not that geologists have noticed. Nor pretty much anyone else it would seem.

[Boreades]

Interesting idea.
But what caused the earthquakes in places where they aren't fracking?
Like this year in Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_20 ... earthquake

Or the quakes the supermoon might cause?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... onday.html

[Mick Harper]

It's all in SLOT theory somewhere on the AEL. In fact the explanation starts in Italy. Fracking didn't exist when the theory was first framed but it sure as hell confirmed it.

[TisILeclerc]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthalassa

Is this the one where there was one big continent surrounded by one large ocean until the continent broke up and started drifting into smaller chunks?

[Mick Harper]

No. The idea of continents drifting about is preposterous.

[TisILeclerc]

Why is it preposterous?

Was there one large continent or not?

Was there one large sea or not?

Or were all the continents exactly where they are today?

How do mountains form?

[Mick Harper]

Why is it preposterous?

Continental Drift was formulated in 1915. Everybody, including all earth scientists, regarded the idea as preposterous. In 1961 "sea floor spreading"was discovered and everybody decided (practically overnight) that Continental Drift wasn't preposterous but was in fact self-evidently true. Sea floor spreading has turned out to be somewhat mythic but Continental Drift (redubbed Plate Tectonics) was now the ruling orthodoxy.

Was there one large continent or not?

At times.

Was there one large sea or not?

At times.

Or were all the continents exactly where they are today?

There are no such things as continents. Merely those parts of the earth's surface that happen to be above sea-level from time to time. Which changes from time to time.

How do mountains form?

By differential erosion.

[TisILeclerc]

By differential erosion?

Which means I think that all land was very very high and then got eroded by rain or wind.

Continents don't exist. A bit semantic I would say. But what causes the changes?

We know that Doggerland was flooded. At least we think that Doggerland, if it existed was flooded. Or perhaps there was always the north sea.

But what caused the flood?

The melting of the ice?

In which case do we wait every so many millions of years for ice to somehow form and then melt? Or do the non continents appear and disappear under or over a sea for some unknown reason?

Gravity perhaps?

[Mick Harper]

By differential erosion? Which means I think that all land was very very high and then got eroded by rain or wind.

If you think about it, there is no such thing as high land. It is just the vertical distance between it and sea level. So what is high will depend on the sea level not the 'height' of the land.

Continents don't exist. A bit semantic I would say. But what causes the changes?

Changes in sea level.

We know that Doggerland was flooded. At least we think that Doggerland, if it existed was flooded. Or perhaps there was always the north sea.

Most places on earth have been below sea level at some stage, including Doggerland.

But what caused the flood?

Differential erosion.

The melting of the ice?

There have never been any ice ages.

In which case do we wait every so many millions of years for ice to somehow form and then melt?

In a sense, yes.

Or do the non continents appear and disappear under or over a sea for some unknown reason?

For a known reason. Differential erosion.

Gravity perhaps?

In a sense, yes.

[TisILeclerc]

The sea level rises. How?

Is there a finite amount of sea? Or is it infinite?

Where does the extra sea come from? What holds it up?

Or does the earth get flooded from space at regular intervals?

And how much land was there and was it spread all over the planet or was it concentrated at one particular point, or for that matter at several points?