#8228 by earthexpansion » Jan 05, 2013 12:38 pm
"Orogenic plateaus" - That's when it's time to call it a day.
Well, .. that was that. Once they start talking about "orogenic plateaus" (colliding plates pushing up plateaus) it's time to call it a day. They've lost the plot, .. up the creek. Hamstrung by their "plates and plate convergence". It's what happens when they try to interpret what they're seeing in terms of the wrong paradigm - because _they_thought_of_it. They refuse to let it speak for itself.
Get this: ... On the one hand the colliding plates are supposed to crumple the crust (and throw up "mountains" which are all rugged bumps) and on the other hand colliding plates are supposed to *not* crumple the crust, .. and throw up plateaus instead, .. which are flat as a tack - or as near as makes no difference. "Elevator Tectonics" they call it, creating "orogenic plateaus" Well, .. if that doesn't make any self-respecting geologist throw up, nothing will, .. driven by geophysicists of course, spinning fantasy fairy-brain floss off the top of their collective head, in the knowledge that everybody will nod (if they're not asleep already). I haven't seen one instance of "vigourous debate", where somebody actually contradicts somebody else's effort. (It's the original 'old boy club' where they vie with each other over the fineness of spun sugar.)
I ask you, .. how inconsistent can you get - if not just bloody, outright stupid? Can it be reconciled numerically? Of course it can. Does it make sense? Of course it doesn't (10, 9, 8, 7, 6, .. and five's 11) (heard it before?) (Wanna see my toes?)
To lend authority to this ridiculous state of affairs they invoke a "multidisciplinary approach" that includes geodynamics, seismology, geodesy, metamorphic and igneous petrology and geochemistry, structural geology, sedimentology, tectonic geomorphology, and mineral physics - which happily allows everybody to have a finger in the 'research pie' - which is the point of it all ("We are a community of scientists"). The phalanx of respectable science, in a white coat. The emperor's given away his dude-suit for white. All he needs is a fluffy cloud for a friend, and everybody's supposed to think they're looking at the Promised Land - With Just a Theory there citing and ripping papers on the gate.
Talk about a waste of effort(!) (and money). What's it going to take to puncture this jamboree of free lunch? Eh?
"Orogenic Plateaus ... " ( Ungghh !) What rubbish!
If Just a Theory thinks just by citing this stuff he can turn this swamp of escapes into high dry ground he's got another thing coming.
The changing liturgy of Plate Tectonics a.k.a. "Advances in the field of Plate Tectonics":-
"Flat Subduction"
"Orogenic plateaus"
"Elevator Tectonics"
"Diffuse Plate Boundaries."
"Whenever ideas fail, men invent words" (~Martin H. Fischer).
(Holding on like grim death, right enough! )
^$^$#@!! ( Anything to try to pull the wool over your eyes.)
(to be continued...)