Plate Tectonics

CPT Q. 071: What about the hydroplate model that assumes no pre-Flood ocean lithosphere existed?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 71 Q. #71 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 71. Walt Brown’s hydroplate model assumes a pre-Flood earth that had no ocean lithosphere. In that model all of today’s ocean floor became exposed for the first time during the Flood. What about Flood models which assume that no ocean …

CPT Q. 072: How do you respond to those who claim that granite simply cannot form from a melt?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 72 Q. #72 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics In your response to question 30, you stated: “The case is strong that melting of these subducted sediments generated the staggering volume of granitic magma that was emplaced along the western margin of North, Central, and South …

CPT Q. 073: If granites did not cool from a molten state, would CPT still have a heat problem?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 73 Q. #73 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 73. It seems to me that a major heat problem of both your CPT model and the RATE team’s conclusions of accelerated decay, could be resolved simply by removing the highly questionable (many would argue impossible) assumption that …

CPT Q. 075: Are not labels such as ‘Mesozoic’ and ‘Cretaceous’ not circular and tautological?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 75 Q. #75 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 75. You continue to employ what seems to me a confusing ‘mix’ of deep time terms and concepts in your geology and radiometric age explanations with short time language in connection with Biblical history and the Flood. For example, you …

CPT Q. 076: What was the tie between accelerated nuclear decay and other aspects of the Flood?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 76 Q. #76 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 76. In earlier discussions regarding “two separate episodes” of runaway subduction, you seem to imply that you believe runaway subduction was largely decoupled from the episodes of accelerated nuclear decay. Yet you hold …

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

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 97 Q. #97 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics 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 …

CPT Q. 098: How and when did ocean island chains like Hawaii form?

Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics ·

CPT 98 Q. #98 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Q. 98. Could you comment on Catastrophic Plate Tectonics regarding island chain formation, such as the Hawaiian Islands? Do you take Potassium/Argon radioactive dates as a relative chronology reflecting the ocean floor processes? Did the …