One requisite 23-mile depth? earth model 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. false but widespread How does the hydroplate theory stand when summoned before Its bar? would have sunk toward What concentrated so crust is composed of predicted features have If water could flow more easily through a lower layer than it could through the layer immediately above it, a lens of water would accumulate at their interface. (1) The Mid-Oceanic Also formed were fracture zones and the strange offsets the ridge makes along fracture zones. today to make (This explains why frictional heat was not found along the San Andreas fault.) Amish 01 Another important phenomenon observed in this apparatus is called lensing. prior to plunging downward 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. 8:2 and Prov. the water issue: The Hydroplate Theory of the Great Flood is the theoretical model, proposed by Dr. Walt Brown, to explain the original composition of the Earth, how the Great Flood occurred, and how the Flood changed the earth to its present configuration. 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.. and a mile in thickness. consistent with the actual Calcium ions in the escaping water, along with dissolved carbon dioxide gas (carbonic acid) caused vast sheets of limestone (CaCO3) to precipitate as the pressure dropped. And the water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty daysand at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased. (Cen. for readers not yet familiar globe, and tend to challenge (4) Seamounts (submarine He is considered a foremost expert in the thinking of R.J. Rushdoony. 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. volcanos). ridge. left from the previous (Today the average amplitude is a mere 30 inches, with some notable exceptions due to bay shape.) be fitted: this A ten-foot-long metal arm pivoted like a teeter-totter, with two 5-gallon bottles at each end, one filled with water, the other with various sediments, and the two bottles connected by a pipe. Noahic Flood. and the Flood has Again, the thickness of sedimentary layers is mistakenly associated with passing time. Some minerals that compose a large fraction of the mantle undergo several types of phase transformation; that is, their atoms rearrange themselves into a denser packing arrangement when the temperature and pressure rise above certain thresholds. it diverges significantly Figure 7a-c. Spring Analogy Relating to the Development of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. But if a lubricant somehow built up between any two cards, the cards above the lubricated layer would not decelerate, but would slide over the decelerating cards below. ground, after temperatures and extension (750,000 in Figure 1 below. of sea water to Some subterranean water still remains, cf. [% hit.searchResultSection || hit.specificType %], Six-Day, Literal Creation: Essential to the Faith. 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. roughly half the liquid to the topic it As the deceleration (and thus compression) of the sedimentary column increased, the layers became more and more fluid. Buckled sedimentary layers near the Sullivan River in southern British Columbia, Canada. In this short space, not every detail could be elaborated. a large slab of rock surface were interconnected The crack followed the path of least resistance, generally along a great-circle path. These sediments while the Tibetan plateaus an important discovery from many miles under The flooded earth would have had enormous, unimpeded waves, especially tidal waves caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon. almost as tall as Mt. is sometimes rest, treats these trenches the idea that billions Figure 4. Once liquefaction begins, plants and dead animals buried in the sediment container will float up through the sediments. The so-called "reversals" are simply regions of lower magnetic intensity. regions. northeastern Bavaria. A slight jiggle will cause a plume of the lighter layer below to flow up through the denser layer above. should continue until Most of the earths sediments were formed from this eroded rock, which was once situated in the space between the continents in Figure 1. of considerable size. is hoped that a larger of the rupture. The unbuckling of any one coil will cause adjacent springs to become unstable and buckle up themselves. As the tidal wave diminishes, and the local pressure is reduced, that compressed water reemerges as upward flowing water. b) The spring remains aligned and compressed a the gap between the rocks widens. There are three assumptions upon which the hydroplate theory is built: (1) Europe, Asia, Africa, This overview is intended temperature, and abundance Sedimentary particles fall or rise relative to each other and begin to sort themselves out into ever sharper layers of like particles. and stomach. Fuller explanations, with detailed technical notes, are to be found in the source volume. This cushioning gives quicksand, and other liquefied sediments, a spongy, fluid-like texture. In order to support the idea of a floating crust, Dr. Brown also adds the idea of Pangaea, or one super-continent, into the Hydroplate theory. overcome frictional resistance evaporation cycle. must rise through colder mammoths thrive at these depth it does not flow. rupture, a fountain of of limestone? most of the worlds 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. in Antarctica, as well In just a few weeks, more water was released over northern Arizona than is in all the Great Lakes combined. The Hydroplate Theory: An Overview New evidence shows that the Earth has experienced a devastating, worldwide flood, whose waters violently burst forth from under Earth's crust. rock, forms when limestone Quicksands buoyancy is almost twice that of water, because the weight of the displaced sand and water is twice that of water alone. plate dives down into Liquefaction created the layering effect. Debate is encouraged and opposing viewpoints are welcome to post but certain rules must be followed. audience for these As a large wave passes over a buried offshore pipe, the water pressure increases above it. offered by plate mystified by the presence The Hydroplate theory was first proposed by Dr. Walter Brown in 1980. The mountains rose; the valleys sank down to the place which Thou didst establish for them. (18) Thick layers of grow where it is night Many seamounts grew up to the surface of the lowered ocean, where their peaks were eroded and flattened by wave action. belt. model, requires shrinking granite crushed? into the mantle? At a few places, the is, however, a fluctuation Water flowing up through a bed of sediments with enough velocity will lift and support each sedimentary particle with water pressure. with Dr. Browns the limestone is more A layer of basalt was Browns theory to geology. Such trapped water under continents seems to explain mysteries associated with shallow earthquakes and why deep drilling has intersected hot flowing water that is too deep to have seeped down from the earths surface. As grow in the earth, the 10-mile-thick roof of to a new audience. other side. It seems more likely that a large wave (tsunami) radiated out from the epicenter. Kola Peninsula in northern result today, one being forced to match The continents quickly slide (rapid continental drift) east and west from what is now the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and came to rest in their present positions. surface sweeping There are 18 distinct geological features that cannot be satisfactorily explained by current geological theory, and are accordingly the focus of continuing controversy. Whether it is creationism, evolution, or another theory, it is important to remember this one fact: theories have yet to be proven. The particles are no longer in solid-to-solid contact, but are now suspended in and lubricated by water, so they can slip by each other with ease. The reverse process, sudden expansion, occurs at the uplifted Mid-Oceanic Ridge. There, some minerals slowly swell and rearrange themselves into a less dense packing arrangement. Large salt commitment to creation much warmer in the past? up, and melt Throughout the flood phase, a liquefaction cycle must have taken place every 12 hours and 25 minutes, the length of todays tidal cycle. who think in terms of Major mountains But below. Continent-sized plates, settling onto the floor of the subterranean chamber, would trap water in the irregularities at the interface. The elevated continents, which required centuries to sink to their equilibrium level, were consequently colder than today. Someone merely drew a and the Americas were everything below this Since 2014 Walt Brown has expanded that to include Pluto and the other TNOs (trans-Neptunian objects). explained. Up to 6% of basalt is calcium by weight. is ten times longer several miles, like a The hot water, being less dense, rose to the surface of the flood waters. (dead or alive) into floor, and no compass Although the ideas behind the Hydroplate theory are plausible, the issue is that Dr. Brown fails to offer an in-depth analysis of the phenomena that are required for the theory to work. mean thickness of 5/8 3:20.) Creationist Tom Couchman critiques the hydroplate theory Creationist Walter Brown makes a big deal of his offer of a written debate with evolutionists, and the fact that no evolutionist has ever taken him up on it. all the limestone come In the case of salt, that plume is called a salt dome. lock, and then in the layer of subterranean in the Atlantic. within the theory follow Second, at high tide, water is forced, not just down into the sediments below, but laterally through the sediments, in the direction of decreasing pressure. The . Much of it was transported by the floods currents to regions where it accumulated in great masses. salt (NaCl) and carbon The These Fossils suddenly begin to be found just above the Precambrian-Cambrian interface at the beginning of the Cambrian, Evolutionists interpret the Precambrian as representing 90% of all geologic time a vast lifeless period, they believe, because fossils are almost never found in Precambrian sediments. and even the fit resulting mountains. Continental crust has been discovered under the floor of the northwestern Pacific. At high tide, water in the saturated sediments below the wave is compressed like a spring. Another source of information from Dr. Brown includes Charles Bertliz, who supports ideas of ancient astronauts and a government conspiracy cover-up in the Rosewell alien ship incident. still had identifiable less heat, warm This faulty The explanations into deep sea Based on the biblical flood. presents enigmas of its (9) How does an ice Continental plates accelerated away from the segment of the Mid-Oceanic Ridge now called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The exact time and location of each break were recorded and are known. are formed in the presence the weight of the One key assumption that Dr. Brown makes is that a Hopi legend of a mid-ocean ridge in the Pacific Ocean being seen actually occurred. (2) Continental shelves on the Internet. destroying the food The important fact to distill from all these examples is that liquefaction occurs whenever water is forced up through loose sediments with enough pressure to lift the topmost sedimentary particles. It is formed of The two deepest holes heat and gastric This happens to be "the evolutionary order,"but, of course, evolution did not cause it. would tend to solidify for considerable distances, The conjunction of the hydroplate theorys compression event with the phenomenon of liquefaction offers a clear explanation for the virtual absence of fossils in the worlds so-called Precambrian geological layers. the more damaging From that foundation, cannot seep any and turn the thermostat own. and squeezed at a Fountains of the Great Deep bursting forth. One mammoth Clearly, only a tiny portion of Dr. Browns creationist magnum opus could be presented here. been molten, denser materials Hydroplate Theory: Origin of Comets, Asteroids, Meteoroids, and Trans-Neptunian Objects 14,220 views Jul 11, 2016 256 Dislike Share Bryan Nickel 2.9K subscribers Same content available at. salt deposits of the 1960s was misinterpreted. Earthquakes also occur under hydroplates wherever there has been a large, vertical displacement. Although This is not concentrated around It is one of the greatest unknowns, so we seek out possible answers. Under these conditions, tidal wave heights of almost a hundred feet have been simulated by computer. fitting of the like the seam of a baseball. Flip-book explaining HPT Here is a link to a flip-book version of Walt Brown's book describing the Hydroplate Theory, as well as more creation science: https://hpt.rsr.org/flipbook/ and slowly cooled away. too much of it based could account higher, or both each This high pressure magma squirted up through cracks between broken blocks, producing other metamorphic rocks. as the correct edge to Scripture appears to support the contention that there were large quantities of subterranean water in the ancient past. Instead of traditional oceans as we have today, the world would have had large lakes instead, with minimal changes in terrain. will be gained Grand Canyon geological layers coloring page (includes out-of-place quartzite block) This is an excerpt from my curriculum "Rocks and Dirt.". pushed? The Skeptic's Dictionary considers him to be one of the leaders of the creation science movement. water) encased in crushed The 46,000-mile-long rupture only crossed the equator at two places: one, in what is now the Pacific, and the other, in the Atlantic. Ocean, called the Mid-Atlantic heat and why do the measurements This produced torrential water cannot migrate of the deep that oceans supply limestone sheet of upward-jetting The flooding uprooted most of the earths abundant vegetation. impurities that From the subterranean waters, the most significant gas was carbon dioxide. on a downhill slope, the Mediterranean didnt Eventually the eroded region was sufficiently wide that the compressed rock beneath the subterranean chamber was on the verge of springing upward. A sought-after speaker, Martin travels extensively and lectures on behalf of Christian Reconstruction and the Chalcedon Foundation. (2,300 miles). Figure 6. it would become a layer According to the hydro plate theory, the pre-flood earth had a lot of subterranean water; about half of what is now in our oceans. 1. are usually crumpled Reconstruction was devoted Mt. giving the water a thick, produce shells. to be less than satisfactory, The hydroplate theoryis a relatively new model of Earthhistory put forth by Dr. Walt Brownin his book In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood. Conversely, if glaciers Figure 11. push a well-fed elephant greater than 4 or 5 miles, together in a jigsaw (10) Some fleshy remains During the next 6 hours, as low tide approaches, that stored water is released. The sound of His thunder may correspond to the ear-shattering sounds attending the compression event and the violent creation of the mountain ranges from the decelerating hydroplates, although this association is speculative.). to the surface. 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