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Um, wait. Weren't you claiming earlier that you were a geologist?
So basically, you can't bear burden of proof, or back up what you say, so since we are refusing to take what you say at face value, your going to pretend that this is somehow unreasonable, and ignore us.
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Evidence (see if you can understand, if not, ask again): older continents are much much smaller.
How about you give the ages of each continent and we will see how it stacks up.
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How about you give the ages of each continent and we will see how it stacks up.
According to existed data (the numbers), any continent has a spectrum of ages ranges from very old to very young. So your question is not a reasonable one.
According to existed data (the numbers), any continent has a spectrum of ages ranges from very old to very young. So your question is not a reasonable one.
You are the one who claims that there is a correlation between the size of the continent and its age. If you can't tell us how old a continent is then how can you claim such a correlation?
"Evidence (see if you can understand, if not, ask again): older continents are much much smaller."--juvenissun
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You are the one who claims that there is a correlation between the size of the continent and its age. If you can't tell us how old a continent is then how can you claim such a correlation?
"Evidence (see if you can understand, if not, ask again): older continents are much much smaller."--juvenissun
I don't think you understand what you are saying. Give you an example:
We know Minnesota has the oldest rock in US, and the area of that old rock is small. So, when Minnesota was a continent, it was very small.
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Yes, I was commenting that refusals to provide evidence only makes us increasingly confident that you are not telling the truth about actually being a geologist.
I don't think you understand what you are saying. Give you an example:
We know Minnesota has the oldest rock in US, and the area of that old rock is small. So, when Minnesota was a continent, it was very small.
Clear?
I missed that in all my history lessons.
When was Minnesota a continent?
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The oldest part of the North American Continent is called the "Canadian Shield" and there's a bit that is in Minnesota.
Continents in general are more "felsic" in their mineralogy than ocean crust. That is they are made up (usually) of more silica rich rocks like granites etc. Whereas ocean crust is made up of "mafic" (more iron and magnesium rich rocks). The way this happens is called fractional crystallization and allows us to take a magma and make both a basaltic rock and a granitic rock from it.
But early on, when the first continents are thought to have formed they were smaller owing to a number of factors (thinner crust, more dynamic tectonics, etc.)
As to the claim that "older continents are smaller" I'm not quite sure where to land on that one. Indeed most continents are made up of:
The "craton" is the "stable inner portion" of the continent made up of the shield and the platform that overlays it. The outer edge of continents is where more of the "tectonic action" is.
Now this is an oversimplification (it's been a while since I have done this stuff).
HEre's a map of the Canadian Shield:
Minnesota wasn't ever really it's own "continent", but it was part of the oldest portion of the core of our continent.
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