duordi said:
I do agree that erosion and geological influences will affect the meteor record.
The point in using the Baltic Shield was to observe the meteor distribution in a common geological condition.
See attached image.
I did not intend to imply conditions have not influenced the meteor strike data.
My intent was to determine if the influence was sufficient to explain the distribution completely or if a common event was also necessary to account for the data given.
You claimed that you were looking at a geologically unstable area. The Baltic Shield retains evidence of a lot of meteor strikes because it is a very geologically stable area, not because they happened all at once.
The data that indicates a common event also indicates that a specific multiple event is constrained to a relatively small portion of the Earth. If the strikes in Europe did not extend into ocean areas as seems to be the indication why would it be necessary to cover the Planets oceans with hypothetical meteors?
The data don't indicate a common event. The data indicate that events have been common over the history of the earth but are only preserved in geologically stable areas. Strikes in the oceans would leave little evidence especially since the seafloor has mostly been reworked by continental drift. Strikes in areas that have undergone extensive episodes of mountain building and/or faulting may also be lost and many sites may be buried by sedimentary deposits. That is why the known craters probably represent a small fraction of those that have actually struck the earth in the last few billion years.
If water is contained in the atmosphere and rains out then all of the pressure due to the weight of the water above a specific volume of air is removed.
The atmosphere must then expand as the pressure applied to it is reduced according to the equation PV=NRT. I am sure you are familiar with the related work equations.
No. N is also changing as molecules of water vapor condense to liquid so the pressure can drop with no expansion.
The energy absorption of an expanding atmosphere is not commonly considered.
As long as the atmosphere remains in the expanded state it will not release the energy absorbed.
This doesn't actually make any sense to me.
Noahs trip was not a pleasure trip spent on the deck basking in the sun.
He was inside over a year, which is long enough for a clear sky to develop and yes even a rainbow.
The sky might clear enough in one year for a rainbow but growing conditions will be terrible for many years after so many meteor strikes and with all plants wiped out there will nothing to grow anyway.
BTW, just how long ago do you think this global flood occured and how long do you think the ice age lasted after the flood?
If you now don't think all the big stikes occured at once, when did the ones that weren't part of this episode occur in the short history you allow for earth? Some of the bigger strikes had energies equivalent to 10's or even hundreds of million of megatons of TNT.
When was the
Toba supervolcano? How about the Brunea Jarbridge supervolcanic eruption that buried the animals at
Ashfall in Nebraska? How about the eruptions of the
Yellowstone Supervolcano? Where do you squeeze them into your young earth? When did the 6,000 foot thick lava of the Deccan Traps flow out and cool in your young earth time frame? It must have been a while ago as it would take a long time for lava that thick to cool and there is an ancient temple that was carved into the basalt in about 200 BC. Modern science puts the Deccan at about 65 million years old. What about the even larger Siberian Traps? Many scientists now think the outflowing of the Siberian traps at least contribute to the
mass extinction at the end of the Permian. When did all that volcanic activity occur on the young earth.
You are big on catastrophic analysis. How did all the above catastrophies, massive meteor strikes, massive supervolcanoes and massive lava flows occur on a young earth without anyone who kept records over the last 4,000 years noticing them? Or did they all occur during the flood? If so how did anything survive that?
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