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PS: I was thinking the closing of the thetys would stop the water circulation through it and that should have a huge effect. What is understood about the drivi
by posterboy 9y ago
PS: I was thinking the closing of the thetys would stop the water circulation through it and that should have a huge effect.
What is understood about the driving force of tectonics at all, by the way? Subcutan magma flows are important, I guess.
- anvandare 9y agoI see what you mean by paradox. It's definitely chaotic in that the system loops back on itself, but the main component of tectonics are (supposed to be) mantle cells due to heat difference between the core and the crust.[1] There are Euler poles (also confusingly named poles of rotation - but they're unrelated to the axis of rotation or the poles of the Earth) involved in plate tectonics, but for describing how they move relative to each other.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget [2] https://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/md_help/geology_course/euler_poles.htm https://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/md_help/geology_cour...