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Sea level is now rising at fastest rate in nearly 3,000 years
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This image here showing the gigantic submarine canyon in the St. Lawrence river/channel basin in east Canada - it's so big that it dwarfs Maine by comparison:
[Image: StLawrence_Gulf_bathymetry.jpg]

It looks like it was carved out by massive ice movements when the ice cap melted off most of N. America.  Of course, the edge of the continental shelf had to be either above sea level or much closer to sea level (if other canyons like Hudson Canyon could've been formed as well).  However, that doesn't explain the river-channel carvings hundreds of km out onto the abyssal plain.  If contintental drift took 200+ million years, how did that even take place at all, if land masses aren't as dynamic as to allow for river channels right on the very bottom of the ocean floor far from the shelf?  Scientists still like to think that everything is cut and dry, in one-dimensional fixed terms.  

Furthermore, the ordinary (pre-civilization) global erosion rate (loss of land volume from continents above the water) would've been so much greater than that accumulated by the plate tectonics subduction/upliftment theory rate that took hundreds of millions of years in the making from the ancient continent, Pangea.  If the theory holds true, volcanoes had to do so much of the spewing to keep up with the ordinary erosion rate (100's of thousands of cubic km of basalt in the Idaho basin, and much more in India).  Even then, the continents should've been leveled 70 times over, if the earth were billions of years old.


Quote:So the data in this study indicate that the overall time needed for continents to erode lies between three and 50 million years, a range that includes the 2007 estimate by ICR President John Morris of 14 million years.3
In order to maintain their belief in long ages, some might suggest that landforms were repeatedly uplifted by tectonic forces, providing more land mass for weather to erode. However, Loma Linda University geologist Ariel Roth noted that this scenario would have obliterated the very rock layers that supposedly represent evolution's millions of years! He wrote:
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Quote:It has been suggested that mountains still exist because they are constantly being renewed by uplift from below. However, this process of uplift could not go through even one complete cycle of erosion and uplift without eradicating the layers of the geologic column found in them. Present erosion rates would tend to rapidly eradicate evidence of older sediments; yet these sediments are still very well-represented, both in mountains and elsewhere.2

Magma?  Mommy, magma!!!  If the Earth is really old, then there has to be miles upon miles of basalt in the geologic column over most of the continents - and we'd be seeing so much more volcanic activity than just Hawaii and Iceland.
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RE: Sea level is now rising at fastest rate in nearly 3,000 years - by BoFox - 02-24-2016, 04:19 PM

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