CPT Q. 097: Were plate motions in the Flood generally continuous, or were they pulsed and episodic?

Q. 97. Would sea floor subduction and continent motion proceed in a more or less continuous manner or a pulsed/episodic manner? Do your computer models give any insight on this question?

Response: The modeling efforts I have undertaken up to now show the process unfolds in a relatively smooth manner, without any noticeable fits and starts. There is a quick ramp up in speed as the runaway begins and a slower ramp down as the cold material reaches and spreads out over the bottom boundary and the hot material spreads out below the lithospheric layer at the top boundary. I expect this will continue to be the case when more complex initial conditions to capture the earlier dynamics of the cataclysm are explored.