Understanding Plate Tectonics

In this video, we explore plate tectonics, including a look at convergent, divergent, and transform plate boundaries and what happens at each one.
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Erroneous plate tectonics has been explained in simple terms. Great! The Earth gradually expands, and geoscientists should contemplate about this phenomenon.

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transform boundaries 04:24 convergent boundaries 06:07 divergent boundaries 08:40 hot spot 11:36

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There is an excellent book called Tectonic Processes, cannot remember who by. It is mainly where I learned about plate Tectonics a few decades ago. But all of the essentials in a twelve minute video, so succinctly and intellegently delivered is nothing short of a masterpiece, thank you so much, really enjoyed that refresher.

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Don't teach the plate tectonics "theory". It's comletely wrong. I do support the hypotheses of the Earth expansion and mass increase. We surely don't understand the history and the future of the planets and stars.

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[@waynegabler6570]

Your vid is one of the better ones I have watched and perhaps my comments will cover some possibilities that apply that might be a little or a lot different. 4:15 and the global map of the rifts, I will focus on a few but all act the same basic way. The Pacific ring of fire pushed magma to the center as well as away from the ring’s perimeter. The flow that goes to the center meets under Hawaii and that is the source of the lava rather than it sits above a rising plume of hit magma. The lava that comes out is as cold as the material that flow up at the rifts and travels along the bottom of the crust until it meets the flow coming from the opposite side of the ‘ring of fire’. Even after rising through 5km of solidified magma it still is at 2,000F so the magma that descends to replace the rising magma is also that same temp so the flow along the bottom of the crust is hot and very fluid and that means the same upward pressure at the rifts is matched by a force that is pulling the crust down with enough force it dips the whole area. Hawaii has a ring that is deeper right beside the volcano that a few 100 miles away, by about 1,000 ft and if the area was under a rising plume the volcano shape would go out without any dip being there. The flow that goes east from the Pacific Rift stays with the crust until a line from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico is reached as that is the place that magma, which came up at the Pacific and Atlantic Rifts, is descending. If those places are put on a line (Japan to France) that was to scale you would have lines with up arrows at both sides of the ‘ring of fire’ and at the Atlantic Rift, you would have down arrows at Hawaii and the Great Lakes and the magma going east from the Atlantic Rift is under farther under the continent than France is. France would be like BC is and she is 1/5 of the distance before the magma descends. As those lines go from the crust to the outer core they transition several layers of magma that is denser and hotter than the layer above. That means the rising magma closest to the core rises to that first boundary and then splits as it hit the crust and it flows sideways until it is at the descending lined and it descends and flows along the core where it picks up more heat and rises again. It transfers heat into the layer above it and that layer does the very same pattern and rises and falls along the same lines. The last layer to receive and transfer heat is the material right next to the crust, the hottest being about 3,000F and the coolest about 2,000F. The Pacific Rift off the coast of BC is where it is after being active for 200M years, the original crack was where the Alberta/BC border is and the moving magma that flowed to the easy moved the Rift that much and mud was scraped off that poled up and became the land that is BC today. BC will get more land as the Rift continues to spread and move to the west. The east side of the Rift expanded a lot more because the weight of the continental crust was a lot of resistance to the flow went to the side that had the least. Several 1,000km later the forces were equal and the material flowed in both directions. Not all the mud was scraped off and the material that did get trapped was heated and baked under pressure and when it came under the thinner crust that is Alberta it rose as oil and gas and coal. The Icelandic part of the Rift that flows under France is pulling the UK out into the ocean and that land will eventually gets pulled under as the rift eats away at the continental shelf that the UK sits on. The shelf that come out from Canada’s east coast might have has some assistance from the meeting of the 2 magma flows under that line mentioned earlier. The important about them is that elevation can be used to divide ‘brittle crust’ from ‘liquid crust’. That piece if land mat explain why a volcano isn’t where the outflows meet like it is with Hawaii, the crust was too thick to break through. The Yellowstone magma chamber is stable as long as it is magma, if a big blob of natural gas rose into it that would cause it to become a big bomb more or less. Where do I submit a bid to add the needed ‘venting’??

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I find all of this simply fascinating! It's like the Earth, just like Human Beings, is a LIVING ENTITY onto itself! Yes, just like people, the Earth is always CHANGING and never stays the SAME!

[@marclinquist5558]

Part 1 Hello Mike, I have enjoyed your video on plate tectonics. And I found it far too important to not stop and comment on this subject. And more specifically, an opportunity to express an opinion as to the true and accurate description of the mechanism involved. It’s interesting when you consider how much the standard model is dependent on the mantle having a convection regime. The great Arthur Holmes is credited to its acceptance in geology and the suggestion it could be the missing energy source to drive the tectonic plates. But, he also readily admitted it could be wrong. To date there is no direct observable evidence of the mantle having an up welling of lower density material resembling a convective cell or even a conveyor belt type of mantle movement beneath the tectonic plates. The standard model is only speculative in these regards. But even more importantly, the surface observations over the years have continually presented evidence of a mechanism of plate movement far different than what convection could provide. The mantle appears instead to be a solid state material that is 2,900 km thick, with pressures so great that at only 100 to 250 kilometers carbon can be squeezed into a diamond matrix. There are now a growing number of researchers who are skeptical of the standard model’s over-dependence on such an overly simplistic idea. Prof. Don L. Anderson of the Caltech seismological lab., had with many other geologists made critical assessment of the standard model. authors.library.caltech.edu/25038/122/Chapter%201.%20Origin%20and%20early%20history.pdf New Theory of the Earth Anderson, Don L. (2007) New Theory of the Earth. Cambridge University Press , New York. ISBN 9780521849593. @t "Because of the combined effects of temperature and pressure on physical properties, shallow stratification may be reversible - leading to plate tectonics - while deep dense layers may be trapped at depth." "Conventional (Rayleigh- Benard) convection theory may have little to do with plate tectonics." Convection is so poorly defined that it is difficult to consider it even a viable working hypothesis unless there is some direct observable evidence that it can make anything resembling a prediction of observation. Carlo Doglioni, the geophysicist and former president of the Italian Geological Society, and since April 2016, the president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology has published some very remarkable papers in regard to mantle dynamics and plate tectonics. www.dst.uniro...antle_Dynamics_ MANTLE DYNAMICS AND PLATE KINEMATICS Carlo Doglioni, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy Roberto Sabadini, University of Milan, Italy ". . . . . none of the proposed models of mantle convection can account for the simpler pattern in plate motion we observe at the surface, nor has a unique solution been proposed for how material in the mantle convects. At the moment there is no way to link mantle dynamics and plate kinematics at the surface, considering that the mantle and lithosphere are detached. The Atlantic and Indian ridges are in fact moving apart with respect to Africa, proving not to be fixed both relative to each other and relative to any fixed point in the mantle. This evidence confirms that ocean ridges are decoupled from the underlying mantle." This remarkable observation above expresses the reality of the situation. Geologists need convection to be a viable solution to plate movement, but after 90 years, its existence, let alone its functionality, remains unanswered in the standard model. www.electroplatetectonics.com/

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[@treedog25]

Hi Michael, if you type in flow tectonics in KZbin, you can see my hastily done videos that summarizes the expands on your plate tectonics video. Some of the highlights is that the Earths convection currents are driven and organized by the magnetosphere and it's magnetic flux flows. This means Magma Mass Stratification moves south to north on the crust and north to south through the interior of the earth. Case in point you see almost exclusively divergent plate activity south of the equator and convergent plate activity north of the equator. The big exception is mid-Atlantic Ridge which diverges to add lots of crustal material to a increasing global circumference that the emerging crust needs as the creeps from the South Pole to the equator. But once the crust creeps past the equator in the crush starts to set in on the landmass as it crowds upon itself in the northern hemisphere. this is why there is more landmass in the northern hemisphere in the southern hemisphere. This is why most of the trenches are in the northern hemisphere. The exception to that is around Australia which is kind of stuck against China and blocking the flow of the crust as it emerges from the South Pole. Anyway please see my video and critique it. I think if anybody could, you could. thank you very much. P.S. The changing Earth poles shown in the rock magnetic orientation of the mid-Atlantic Ridge spread shows how when the sun changes its polarity the earth changes its polarity under the sun's influence. The sun being so big can have a core eruption that polarize itself opposite of the core as it travels to the surface. This means the surface of the sun will throw off a opposite magnetosphere for time until a core flow of continuity can emerge behind it to re-throw the magnetosphere back into a polarity the same with the core. Expanding a little further out on that, there may be electric, magnetic and radiative fields found within our solar system and our galaxy that affects our sun rhythmically as we whirl upon the spiral arm of the Milky Way. Anyhow, back to flow tectonics on earth, I look forward to hearing from any feedback I can get.

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It is not an extension of Continental Drift. It is the theory that explains why continents (and oceans) move, condense or extend.

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The biggest in explained problem especially with the Pacific plate is thar while it is moving in a counter clockwise direction and being subducted at the northern and eastern trenches, along the Nazis and Juan de Fuco boundaries, they seem to be divergent. A possible explanation for these inconsistencies would seem to be that parts of th3 pacific plate has actually slid beneath those plates and have lifted them askant in the same way that Ice floes can crash together one partially subduction and causes the other to begin to flip, thereby exposing what had been subducted

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