Plate Tectonics

CPT Q. 000: Introduction – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics The following series is a web-adaptation of a PDF document (original), some 157 pages in length, which I found on the biography page of Dr. John Baumgardner, entitled: 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics. Many years back, I …

CPT Q. 001: Does Flood modeling conflict with commitment to the authority and sufficiency of Scripture?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 1 Q. #1 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 1. How do your efforts to model and understand the tectonics of the Flood square with the historic orthodox Christian view of the authority and sufficiency of Scripture? Response: I am earnestly persuaded from Scripture that not only is …

CPT Q. 002: How can continental plates move laterally with roots that extend to depths of 200-250 km?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 2 Q. #2 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 2. How can continental plates move laterally given the fact that most continental plates have lithospheric roots that extend to depths of 200-250 km into the asthenosphere? Response: First of all, lateral motion of continents is possible …

CPT Q. 003: Is not the resistance to subduction far too great to allow a plate to subduct?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 3 Q. #3 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 3. Why does not a subducting plate experience so much resistance in diving down through just the top of the mantle that it could never penetrate any significant distance? Would not the blunt front end alone prevent any movement? Would …

CPT Q. 004: Are sediments, volcanoes, and plateaus actually scraped off subducting plates at trenches?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 4 Q. #4 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 4. What evidence supports the idea that sediments, volcanoes, and plateaus have been scraped off subducting plates at trenches? Response: There are thousands of papers documenting the reality of accretionary wedges at subduction zones in …

CPT Q. 005: Are sediments in trenches deformed and contorted as expected?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 5 Q. #5 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 5. Is there evidence that sediments in trenches are deformed and contorted as one should expect if subduction is genuine? Response: There are hundreds of articles in the peer-reviewed literature that document mélange structure in …

CPT Q. 006: How can plates possibly rift apart and move over underlying rock?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 6 Q. #6 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 6. How can plates rift apart, and should they do so, how could they move over the underlying rock? Response: While plates in general display considerable strength, there is impressive observational evidence that they can and do rift, or …

CPT Q. 007: How can one plate dive beneath an adjacent plate that is 30-60 miles thick?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 7 Q. #7 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 7. How can a plate even begin its dive under an adjacent plate that is 30-60 miles thick if cliffs cannot be higher than 5 miles? Response: Because rock at sufficient depth under stress does indeed begin to deform inelastically or …

CPT Q. 008: Is subduction geometrically possible only along a straight line?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 8 Q. #8 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 8. Is subduction geometrically possible only along a straight line? Response: According to GPS measurements, subduction is taking place today into the arc-shaped Aleutian Trench, the arc-shaped Sumatra Trench, and many other trenches …

CPT Q. 009: Why are there so many volcanic seamounts on the interior of the Pacific Plate?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 9 Q. #9 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 9. If subducting plates produce volcanoes, why are there so many volcanic seamounts on the interior of the Pacific Plate? Response: More than half of the world’s active volcanoes above sea level today encircle the Pacific Ocean to …