Plate Tectonics

CPT Q. 061: How well has CPT served as an impetus for new geological research relating to the Flood?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 61 Q. #61 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 61. CPT was introduced nearly two decades ago. How well has it served as a basis for geological research within diluvialism? Would an examination of the technical literature demonstrate that CPT is a strong or a weak model for …

CPT Q. 062: Is water’s large heat of vaporization also a problem for CPT, as it is for canopy models?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 62 Q. #62 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 62. One of the problems with canopy theories is the latent thermal energy in their collapse. How would the descending water from the steam jets be different if it had been boosted into space? Response: Water vapor, in order to fall as …

CPT Q. 063: Does accumulating basalt from a subducting plate buoy up the adjacent continent edge?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 63 Q. #63 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 63. CPT posits the flooding of the continents was caused in part by the downward drag of the continents by descending plates. If so, would not the rapid addition of so much volume of new basaltic crust (from the subducting plate) …

CPT Q. 064: How could the Atlantic open and close with no effect on the Aleutian-Siberian platform?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 64 Q. #64 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 64. How could the Atlantic open and close repeatedly without any effect on the Aleutian-Siberian platform, which is underlain by continental crust? Response: I encourage you to review the sequence of continent paleolocations produced …

CPT Q. 065: How can fossils be employed to correlate strata, if such a procedure assumes evolution?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 65 Q. #65 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 65. You state that the ocean drilling programs: “…have provided a wealth of data relating to the history of the world’s ocean basins. These data make it possible to correlate fossils in the deep ocean sediments with the marine …

CPT Q. 066: What initiated catastrophic plate tectonics?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 66 Q. #66 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 66. Viewing CPT from a global perspective, what initially caused slabs of the pre-Flood oceanic crust to break loose prior to the runaway subduction at the Flood onset? Response: As far as how the cataclysm was initiated, to be honest, …

CPT Q. 067: How can horizontal forces move a large tectonic plate without rupturing it?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 67 Q. #67 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 67. Although ‘buoyancy anomalies in the mantle’ and ‘gravitational potential energy’ are envisioned as the vertically-downward forces need for subduction, how would lateral force continue to be transmitted by ‘trench pull’ and ‘ridge …

CPT Q. 068: Why are trenches filled mostly with continent-derived sediments?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 68 Q. #68 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 68. Can you provide detailed, empirically-based explanations for the following deep-sea trench features: (1) dominance of continent-derived sediments (rather than oceanic as UPT would predict); (2) graben-like geomorphology (i.e., …

CPT Q. 069: How does CPT produce thickened zones of low-density rock to form mountain belts?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 69 Q. #69 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 69. How does CPT (or UPT) account for the presence of low-density rock at depth beneath mountain belts? Can mountain building really be explained using only natural processes? Response: As I mention briefly in my answer to question 63, …

CPT Q. 070: Is existence of oceanic lithosphere in the pre-Flood world merely an assumption?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 70 Q. #70 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 70. In your response to question 49, you asked an excellent, provocative question: “Let me conclude with a question. Since the pre-Flood ocean lithosphere all seems to missing from the earth’s surface today, where else might it be …