I wrote down a list I saw at a geology lecture.
20 ways the world could end suddenly: (but I only have eight)
Asteroid impact
Gamma-ray burst
Collapse of a vacuum
Rogue black holes
Giant solar flares
Reversal in the Earth's magnetic feild
Flood basalt volcanism
Global epidemics
The one that caught my eye was this "Flood basalt volcanism". I thought perhaps we could talk about it since the Flood is constantly in debate. Except, I don't know exactly what it is.
"Basalt" is oceanic material that forms through rapid cooling of magma at divergent plate boundaries. Perhaps they are talking about massive volcanic upheavals in ocean floor that would raise the sea level enough to Flood the earth. Would the "water world" be temporary? Wouldn't the dense oceanic plate sink back to its original level (through melting or leveling)?
Except, we would totally have a different ocean floor if this happened in the past. Or would we? The ocean floor is is like ?140 million? years old at the latest due to plate subduction. If there was anything like this, it would likely have occured before our oldest peice of the atlantic plates.
20 ways the world could end suddenly: (but I only have eight)
Asteroid impact
Gamma-ray burst
Collapse of a vacuum
Rogue black holes
Giant solar flares
Reversal in the Earth's magnetic feild
Flood basalt volcanism
Global epidemics
The one that caught my eye was this "Flood basalt volcanism". I thought perhaps we could talk about it since the Flood is constantly in debate. Except, I don't know exactly what it is.
"Basalt" is oceanic material that forms through rapid cooling of magma at divergent plate boundaries. Perhaps they are talking about massive volcanic upheavals in ocean floor that would raise the sea level enough to Flood the earth. Would the "water world" be temporary? Wouldn't the dense oceanic plate sink back to its original level (through melting or leveling)?
Except, we would totally have a different ocean floor if this happened in the past. Or would we? The ocean floor is is like ?140 million? years old at the latest due to plate subduction. If there was anything like this, it would likely have occured before our oldest peice of the atlantic plates.
