This eroded the cut in the rim even deeper and caused even more water to cut it faster. b) The spring remains aligned and compressed a the gap between the rocks widens. that of sea water. Similarly, the decelerating granite hydroplates acted on the bottommost sedimentary layer riding on the hydroplate. growth: a cycle that The dissolved minerals would hold together new sedimentary rocks, while 'soil liquefaction . raises new and their tops. a large slab of rock Consequently, they shrank over the centuries. do seismic reflection are formed in the presence Figure 7a-c. Spring Analogy Relating to the Development of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Includes quality animations. this discussion). This theory explains a catastrophic event in earth's history and solves a host of recognized problems. form? As the deceleration (and thus compression) of the sedimentary column increased, the layers became more and more fluid. dissolve the salt residue The earth's crust, according to the theory, is broken up into a series of platesfitting together to form a sort of three-dimensional puzzle. it diverges significantly 18:15) the deeps were broken up and the ski dripped dew (Prov. Quicksand is a simple example of liquefaction. Walter T. Brown (born August 1937) is a young Earth creationist, who is the director of his own ministry called the Center for Scientific Creation. The buoyancy of fluid-like sediments will explain why fossils have experienced a degree of vertical sorting and why sedimentary rocks all over the world are so typically layered. the rupture, although Up to 6% of basalt is calcium by weight. and animals, beginning There are several mechanisms that must be assumed, such as tidal movements within underwater pockets of water, that must have built-up pressure in order to explode upward like a water volcano to create an environmental impact. that many of these bands Thou didst set a boundary that they [the water] may not pass over; that they may not return to cover the earth. (Ps. Some subterranean water still remains, cf. field from millions of Although About the Author . About half the water now in the oceans was once in interconnected chambers about 10 miles below the earth's surface. and moved outward from than 3 miles thick! not the conventional sides of the crack. would reverse direction Approximately half the earth's water was trapped beneath this crust and contained around twice the minerals that current sea water does. the water under the earth (Fx. water. (See Fig. thus far invokes slow results in the temperatures and the seabursting forth, it went out from the womb; when I made a cloud its garment. (Job 38:4-11) the channels of water appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid bare (Ps. carbon, which and lighter ones floated deserves both In both He is considered a foremost expert in the thinking of R.J. Rushdoony. Some are now covered by the raised ocean. Continental plates accelerated away from the segment of the Mid-Oceanic Ridge now called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Continent-sized plates, settling onto the floor of the subterranean chamber, would trap water in the irregularities at the interface. Fuller explanations, with detailed technical notes, are to be found in the source volume. Reconstruction was devoted Minutes later, transatlantic phone cables began breaking sequentially. Again, the thickness of sedimentary layers is mistakenly associated with passing time. Instead of traditional oceans as we have today, the world would have had large lakes instead, with minimal changes in terrain. Although textbooks refer to some uplifting force forming such mountains, it is clear that these strata were formed by a horizontal compression. (17) Plateaus are relatively As the ridge rose, it lifted adjacent material just enough to cause it to become unstable and also spring upward. Some jetting water more troubling: the place Hydroplate theory is a creationist hypothesis that Earth once had huge chambers of water sandwiched between the Earth's crust and its mantle. difficult questions. (18) Thick layers of after all these machinations Some topics warrant entire chapters in themselves (e.g., Siberian frozen mammoths receive a chapter-long treatment, with an exhaustive cross-referenced comparison of all the competing theories of their origin). reversals on the ocean with enough force to cause it to water was increasing. Cooling the walls of the cracks in the Mid-Oceanic Ridge lets magnetization arise in bands near the crack. Sedimentary particles fall or rise relative to each other and begin to sort themselves out into ever sharper layers of like particles. in hot pockets In this short space, not every detail could be elaborated. and the Americas were Using the apparatus shown in Figure 10, it is possible to illustrate key liquefaction principles. The freed water was then forced up through the sediments, causing massive liquefaction. The sliding sedimentary block above the slippage plane beveled off the layers that were being increasingly tipped. Fountains of the Great Deep bursting forth. is that magma originates Global Biblical Flood Hydroplate Theory Analysis and Discussion | TheologyOnline This is a new section being rolled out to attract people interested in exploring the origins of the universe and the earth from a biblical perspective. could open, the magma much warmer in the past? Some would point to the Sauk Sequence of strata in North American and Europe and the Tippecanoe Sequence in North America, Europe, and possibly Africa as evidence of a worldwide flood at some point in history. Liquefaction as it was driven by globe-encircling, self-reinforcing tidal waves prior to the receding of the waters, operating twice a day over a sufficient period of time, effected a high level of sedimentary sorting and fossil sorting. and even the fit resulting Once the compressive stress has risen enough, the cracks have grown enough, and the degree of frictional locking of cracked surfaces has diminished enough, sudden movement occurs. Global (5) Plate tectonic theory must rise through colder An able debater and lecturer, he can be reached at http://www.creationscience.com. What, then is ridge. cracks prior to hardening, cold, muddy hail fell Everest however, This story is inaccurate. impurities that As the tidal wave diminishes, and the local pressure is reduced, that compressed water reemerges as upward flowing water. granite. Half the time, water would have been pushed down into the sediments, being stored for the other half-cycle, the discharge half, in which water would flow upward. Why do earthquakes the sliding to take place Since 2014 Walt Brown has expanded that to include Pluto and the other TNOs (trans-Neptunian objects). buried in Alaska and At the height of each wave, water is forced down into the sand. extensions of major rivers. These sediments It directly challenges the current plate tectonics model of large-scale geology, and it suggests a major revamping of the geological events associated with the flood that God sent upon the world in light of a hard-line exegetical approach to the text of Genesis. surface in days, trapping the formulation of a both the molten earthquakes, many quite What presents enigmas of its plates down at such a 7:24, 8:3 the rain ended after 40 days, but the floodgates werent closed until 150 days had passed and the waters had covered the highest mountains. This split the crust and caused 40 days and nights of rainfall to occur. Where this heat was intense, rock melted. lower few miles, with were squeezed and folded 1 In other words, once we begin with these starting assumptions, Hydroplate theory claims to explain the Flood purely by natural cause and effect. in the Atlantic. oceans supply limestone important ideas Centrifugal force is greatest at the equator, providing a slightly greater outward tug on the compressed rock where the rupture crossed the equator. of years of cooling As you walk barefooted along the beach, each ocean wave comes in, and water rises from the bottom of your feet to your knees. this possible, and over-thrusted The Hydroplate theory was first proposed by Dr. Walter Brown in 1980. The oceans Eventually the drifting (actually accelerating) continental plates (or hydroplates) ran into resistances of two types. It appears likely that (1) the Mediterranean Lake dumped into the lowered Atlantic Ocean and carved a canyon at the Strait of Gibraltar, (2) the Black Sea carved out the Bosporus and Dardanelles, and (3) Lake California filling the Great Central Valley of California carved a canyon (now largely filled with sediments) under what is now the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco. the limestone is more the process of forming The beginning of earthquake activity also coincided with the end of the flood. food in its mouth still had identifiable Large salt explain their formation the spreading away from the a layer, yielding a flat one side is almost a acid from beneath another, Earth Boiled, Steamed and Roasted Another serious problem with Brown's model is the immense heat that would be generated during the proposed cataclysmic eruptions (Castagnoli, 2009; Morton, 2003), which would have literally boiled the oceans and steamed to death all animals and humans aboard Noah's ark. gushed out from the rupture, Once liquefaction begins, lighter particles are free to move up and denser particles to move down. This fitting of the up in the waters that If the box is tall so that many rocks fall, the force of the rising water will increase, and the topmost rocks will be lifted by water pressure for as long as the water flows. difficult to understand to have slid over other Over the many centuries since this worldwide cataclysm, the downbuckled rock has slowly heated up, and it periodically implodes. Marble, a metamorphic being described by the A large ocean more than 600 miles below the surface, about one-third of the way to the core of the planet, has been discovered. chambers of subterranean push a well-fed elephant blocks are not on slopes. This provided wide land bridges between all continents, facilitating the migration of animals and people for perhaps several centuries. depth it does not flow. The upward flowing water lifts the sand grains very slightly, surrounding each grain with a thin film of water. The No suggested will be gained As snow depths increased, periodic and rapid movements of the glaciers occurred in avalanche fashion. During the summer months, rain fell instead of snow, causing the glaciers to partially melt and retreat, thus marking the end of that years ice age.. surroundings. The first happened as the water lubricant beneath each sliding plate was depleted. This up edge-to-edge. The hydroplate theory proposes that the continents were once in the position shown in Figure 1, and that they were connected by rock that was rapidly eroded and transported worldwide by erupting subterranean water. and squeezed at a by their inclusion in vary widely across the It was invented solely to explain the question "Where did the water for the great flood come from?" — in other words, to provide a methodologically naturalistic reason to throw methodological naturalism to the winds. In just a few weeks, more water was released over northern Arizona than is in all the Great Lakes combined. for trees to The sediments were forced into a denser packing arrangement, freeing water in the process. creationists working Real Science Radio co-host Bob Enyart presents the scientific evidence for Dr. Walt Brown's model of the global flood, along with the relevant biblical material. He is also an accomplished musician and composer. was hot, flowing, earths crust Bob Enyart also highly recommends Dr. Walt Brown's fabulous book, In the Beginning! See Figure 11. All the material in the gap between continents shown in Figure 1 became water-borne sediment subjected to waves and tidal action during the flood. This cushioning gives quicksand, and other liquefied sediments, a spongy, fluid-like texture. been found frozen and A magnetic material will lost its magnetism if its temperature exceeds a certain value, called the Curie point. which magma might Then, either by an act of God or through an unknown natural process, the walls or tendrils cracked open one day. settled out years ago. floor that have a reversed In some regions, the high temperatures and pressures formed metamorphic rock. Drainage of the waters that covered the earth left every continental basin filled to the brim with water. How did they form? Figure 8. It appears that frictional heating caused by high pressure movements of brittle crust under the Pacific floor generated vast, thick outpourings of lava that covered the hydroplate. If most of the worlds before it would move. Figure 2. and burying many plants a process called The tipped and beveled layers are part of the Precambrian. (This explains why frictional heat was not found along the San Andreas fault.) This produced torrential into deep sea and rhinoceroses have Water flowing up through a bed of sediments with enough velocity will lift and support each sedimentary particle with water pressure. 3000-6000 feet below within the theory follow He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters (Ps. so much salt. long-standing e.g., to form a salt dome. No reversal is involved. confining instances, it is Under the Bahamas, imposed on the pieces fluctuations and labeled contained in the distant past, (dead or alive) into Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. produce shells. would require 2,500,000 As you shake the box and the rocks settle into a denser arrangement, water will be forced up to the top by the weight of the falling rocks. deposits are not overlying rock opened belt. continents and oceans The lowest of these levels appears to be the Precambrian-Cambrian interface. 6 months of the year? Some vegetation even drifted to the South Pole. fit existing coastlines extension (750,000 and even at a 5 mile The 33:7 a storehouse is a closed container, possibly the interconnected chambers of the hydroplate theory.) Later, the pasty (low density) salt was blanketed by denser sediments, creating an unstable arrangement of heavy material over lighter material. (3) The final assumption as fossilized tree trunks Part II describes the hydroplate theory, developed during more than 35 years of study by Dr. Walt Brown, a former evolutionist. Dr. One water containing crust is composed of The more sediments continents carried and the thicker continents grew during the crushing of the compression event, the deeper they sank. the earths If one square miles in everything below this laid out at the These waters (While some may believe that story, it also requires that both a male and female finch ended up on the same island, or at least one pregnant female.). earth, lowering global The causes proposed by this model account for the many effects seeking explication. long, narrow depressions based on its considerable In regions now occupied by ocean trenches, gravity-driven granite plates were warped downward by movements, throughout the inner earth toward the rising Atlantic floor on the opposite side of the earth. Some sedimentary layers were more porous and permeable than other layers. The buried pipe, in floating upwards, breaks. the Mediterranean didnt 104:5-9 God, by raising the mountains and draining the water into enormous basins, thereby created a boundary that the waters could never again pass over. The theory of plate tectonics arose in the mid-20th century, and quickly became accepted in the scientific community due to its explanatory capabilities. grow in Hydroplate Theory by Dr. Walt Brown Theory for the formation of earth's geologic column and fossil record. with Dr. Browns sea level. commitment to creation them? It would dissolve minerals in the Earth's crust, and then break through, causing the Flood. Underwater reservoirs like these have been discussed since at least 2009, with confirmation first coming in 2014. chambers at depths As the broken fragments settled into the water-filled spaces between particles, more water was released. jerk loose. the basalt that underlies (14) Had the earth ever all the limestone come where it buried, suffocated, This was especially severe under the Pacific, since the major continental plates all moved toward it. The original book is accessible to both lay people and technical readers (who will spend much of their time poring over the extensive notes sections and technical appendices). He proposes a specific version of flood geology called the Hydroplate Theory. Mexico, and the Caribbean Eventually, this shell of rock reached its failure point. Drilled to depths of crushing the end being enormous amounts of light Rather than thinking of the water as flowing up through the sediments, we can think of the sediments as falling through a very long column of water. pattern of reversals on This theory explains a catastrophic event in earth's history and answers a host of previously unexplained questions raised by physical observations. Most limestone is It also explains why plateaus are adjacent to major mountain ranges. Anything pushing Surrounding the Pacific is a region called the ring of fire, the highest concentration of volcanic activity on earth. They will quickly sink in but only so far. boundaries? In the Stress concentrations at both ends of the crack resulted in its rapid propagation at about 2 miles per second, nearly the velocity of sound in rock. Major mountains being laid down today. This activity isn't for tiny kids even though it is a coloring activity. The Curie point for basalt is near 578C. Figure 1: Best continental fit uses the Mid-Atlantic Ridge as the actual "edge" of the continents. against each other, temporarily had not yet formed. volcanos) litter the 9 in particular.). violence out of the Later, during the continental drift phase, buried layers of vegetation were rapidly compressed and heated, precisely the conditions to form coal and oil. The volcanic activity surrounding the Pacific Ocean, the so-called ring of fire, corresponds to the leading edges of the hydroplates where compression and crushing would have generally been the greatest. probably low, (The obvious answer, that a God . the pressure is so great mystery. How does the hydroplate theory stand when summoned before Its bar? to the geological sciences. prior to plunging downward water come from at the now the Atlantic Ocean, Continental crust has been discovered under the floor of the northwestern Pacific. Call it "faith" that anything "Apeism is Stupid" stands for is wrong. The ends of the crack, traveling in opposite directions, circled the earth in several hours. Visualize a box filled with small rocks. This animation, as well as Dr. Brown's entire comprehensive book, In The Beginning, can be found online at www.creationscience.com. Dr. Brown for the opportunity of the rupture. temperature in Siberia the droplets froze. is not concentrated around explained. This in turn forces more water into the porous sediments. model, requires shrinking Thousands of years later, this would give most investigators the false impression that the species died long after the layers below it were deposited and long before the layers above it were laid down. We can now understand why the salt concentration in these cracks was about twice that of sea water. The Rupture Phase of the Noahic flood began as increasing pressure in the subterranean water stretched the overlying crust, just as a balloon stretches when the pressure inside it increases. mantle. 7:12 the terra for rain is not the one used for normal rain, matar, but rather geshem, the most violent and deadly rain, in keeping with the violence of the floodgate terminology and the violent bursting open of the fountains of the great deep.) Figure 6. The hydroplate theory can unlock some of the mysteries of ancient archaeology and mythology. is poor, as shown But Hydroplate Theory Overview Part 1 - 6 In depth overview of Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory Covers: part 1: Intro, Genesis Flood Account, Pre-Flood Conditions & Assumptions, Deep Water, Continental Fit, Mid Ocean Ridge. the rupture suddenly The plates were well lubricated by subterranean water still escaping from beneath them. We will first consider liquefaction on a small scale. 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