Thursday, July 5, 2018

This Eroding Earth . . .


Since I've known it (since 1955), this Earth has been heavily jostled many, many times, tilting the Earth more and more on its axis.   In 2011 alone, Japan moved over seven-inches closer to America's west coast due to the violent earthquake that hit northern Honshu.  The shift and cracks in the Earth's crust and below are constantly changing, drawing in or out the oceans and seas, causing unexplainable weather.  I'll bet the route of the Atlantic Trade Winds are different now in 2017 than it was in the 1400s when global travelers took to their ships, crossing the oceans to trade with other countries.  There is no real explanation yet for the vast change in weather across the globe, seeming to become more violent and destructive as the years pass.  I don't think it is all the fault of people that has caused the climate to change.  

There's a lot of molten lava across the Earth, under the crust.  What does science know, factually, about what's in that Ring of Fire and below?  We learned in science class, as  kids, that islands usually came about from eruptions of volcanoes.  Land mass increases because of volcanic eruptions.  When the hot lava hits the oceans, what happens?  Lots of steam as well as water being displaced.  The water is getting pushed out and it has to go somewhere.  Thus, tsunami!  The waves can travel well across the oceans and seas, displacing all the water it's holding along the way, creating floods and mudslides.  And as the earth crumbles, taking the earth with it, even more water gets displaced, being filled in with the eroded ground.  


 At this point in time, where are we in conjunction with the Equator?  According to science, paleontology, and history, west Tennessee was much further north, away from the Equator.  Mastadon bones had been found in a local river and elsewhere, putting this area having been inhabited by them whose environment was in the cold.  It does seem that within the past few decades, the summers seem longer and hotter.  There is the occasional ice storm or freak snows, but not enough to say we really have winters.  


1.  Earthquakes - displaces dirt/ground/land, water.  Pushes the water out or in and down as the earth cracks and opens, letting oceans get sucked into the open spaces.  Sometimes that water gets spit back out, forcefully, causing tsunamis.


2.  Volcanoes - displaces dirt/ground/land and water.  Inner lava erupts, sucking it's insides out, pouring lava onto land and in the water, building on to existing land.  It also shoves water out of where it's being replaced, causing unbelievable wakes and tsunamis. 


3.  Axis tilt and the Equator - Earthquakes jostle the Earth and where it sits on its axis, as well as moving land through shaking loose.  Volcanic eruptions jostle the Earth, well down below the crust.  Does the continual deposit of new land, i.e., hardened lava, cause that land to weigh more and maybe shift the heavier side of Earth towards to bottom?  






  

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