The ocean floor is not contracting. Its expanding. How do you explain the young age of the ocean floor around the rifts?
Plate techtonics is the study of the movement of plates not the explaination of whats makeing them move. Is the wind making the plates move? what force is pushing them? Its simple newton physics.
In the case of the 28 foot expansion of the south end of the Red Sea, an earthquake. http://wardheernews.com/Articles_11...ern_Somalia_and_expansion_of_the_Red_Sea.html The Relationship Between the Recent Earthquake in Northern Somalia (Somaliland) & the Expansion of the Red Sea By Hassan A. Hussein, Ph.D Good graphics.. This guy is with Saudi Aramco.
I know. But that doesn't tell us anything about Earth or everything else that he says is expanding. The water on Earth doesn't seem like enough mass to account for the difference in size required to get the continents as far apart as they are. The planet would have to have been less than half the size it is now. There doesn't seem to be enough water to do what he says happened.
Thats false. Density is based on pressure due to depth. The densest water is at the bottom of the ocean, where pressure it the greatest. Salinity varies based on freshwater runoff. The Gulf of mexico has lower salinity due to the mississippi dumping billions of gallons of fresh water...
Look at this map again. Spreading is occuring everywhere, the only way thats possible is if the earth is expanding. The oceans are getting deeper, the continents are getting father apart all due to a constant increase in the quantity of water on the planet. 200 billion years worth...
One thing that is consistently ignored, yet virtually impossible to get long term historic data on is the Earth's magnetic field. As we speak the magnetic poles are shifting, not just inch by inch but by kilometers a year, to think this has no effect on climate is ridiculous. One of the biggest problems I see with 'climate science' is there is no all encompassing models that take everything into account. We see this 'study' and that 'study' and all are independent of the various outside influences on climate as a whole. We still have little or no comprehension of how much methane is released from the ocean and its frequency of release from the vast reserves of frozen methane found on ocean's floor. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/GeomagneticPoles.shtml http://www.viewzone.com/magnetic.weather.html http://www.nrl.navy.mil/research/nrl-review/2002/chem-biochem-research/coffin/
The sun has the greatest effect on climate. In fact there wouldnt be any climate at all without the sun.
you don't know what you're talking about 0:47 the brine then sinks because it much denser than the surrounding seawater [video=youtube;r4cX2EPt2zE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4cX2EPt2zE[/video]
I fully understand that, I simply have my own interests in the Earth's magnetic field, but its a factor, as is frozen methane on the ocean floors, my point is there are various factors not being considered by the Global Warming Cult, and until there is an all encompassing model that includes Solar activity, magnetic field shifts/changes, methane release, and all other factors we are using incomplete models...
Granted that was an awesome video, but its situational and not indicitve of many other factors across the globe...
I heard you. This is disappointing. I asked what I thought was a pretty thoughtful question. And you respond twice as if you hadn't read my question. I'm not just dismissing this out of hand, like most people. I've pointed out a problem for your water idea. You need to answer this. The water on Earth doesn't seem like enough mass to account for the difference in size required to get the continents as far apart as they are. The planet would have to have been less than half the size it is now. There doesn't seem to be enough water to do what he says happened.
No, I read your question, and I disagree with you. There's a whole lot of water on Earth! Something like 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons (326 million trillion gallons) of the stuff (roughly 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 liters) can be found on our planet. This water is in a constant cycle -- it evaporates from the ocean, travels through the air, rains down on the land and then flows back to the ocean. (*)The oceans are huge. About 70 percent of the planet is covered in ocean, and the average depth of the ocean is several thousand feet (about 1,000 meters). Ninety-eight percent of the water on the planet is in the oceans, and therefore is unusable for drinking because of the salt. About 2 percent of the planet's water is fresh, but 1.6 percent of the planet's water is locked up in the polar ice caps and glaciers. Another 0.36 percent is found underground in aquifers and wells. Only about 0.036 percent of the planet's total water supply is found in lakes and rivers. That's still thousands of trillions of gallons, but it's a very small amount compared to all the water available. The rest of the water on the planet is either floating in the air as clouds and water vapor, or is locked up in plants and animals (your body is 65 percent water, so if you weigh 100 pounds, 65 pounds of you is water!). There's also all the soda pop, milk and orange juice you see at the store and in your refrigerator… There's probably several billion gallons of water sitting on a shelf at any one time! Water weights 8 lbs per gallon. 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 X 8 = 2,608,000,000,000,000,000,000 lbs Thats enough if you ask me.
How much does the earth weigh "What is the mass of planet Earth?"1 The quick answer to that is approximately 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6 x 1024) kilograms.
that highly saline seawater is more dense that low saline seawater which makes characterizing ocean water a very complex task