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  • By Plate Tectonics | Fashion Week on September 8, 2009 at 6: 43 pm

    Bedside Table Light, The NOD Light 2009

  • According to the “Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Model” of Baumgardner,69 the ocean floor broke open at the “great rift” and the pieces tectonic plates drifted apart, sometimes as fast as a few meters a second.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • Elaborations on various Flood models can be found in the books by Dillow†† about a large quantity of water vapor above the atmosphere; by Brown about the “springs of the great deep Hydro Plate Model” Genesis 7:11, and in the articles by Baumgardner about the “Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Model.”

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • By Plate Tectonics | elegant. me on September 8, 2009 at 10: 29 pm

    Bedside Table Light, The NOD Light 2009

  • Dillow, Waters Above; Brown, In the Beginning, 103–313; Baumgardner et al., “Catastrophic Plate Tectonics,” 609–21; L.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • According to the “Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Model” of Baumgardner,69 the ocean floor broke open at the “great rift” and the pieces tectonic plates drifted apart, sometimes as fast as a few meters a second.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • Based on geological evidence, Chris Goldfinger, director of the Active Tectonics and Seafloor Mapping Lab at Oregon State University, believes that in the past similar-sized quakes have happened about every 300 to 350 years -- meaning we're just about due.

    Jeff Wise: Could a Sendai-Sized Quake Hit the US? Jeff Wise 2011

  • Based on geological evidence, Chris Goldfinger, director of the Active Tectonics and Seafloor Mapping Lab at Oregon State University, believes that in the past similar-sized quakes have happened about every 300 to 350 years -- meaning we're just about due.

    Jeff Wise: Could a Sendai-Sized Quake Hit the US? Jeff Wise 2011

  • John Elliott , an earthquake geophysicist at the Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics at Oxford University in England, said the three papers provide a useful preliminary view of the quake, though they will likely be refined.

    Scientists Misjudged Quake Potential Gautam Naik 2011

  • "The rocks cracked under the pressure," causing the plates to jerk forward again, said John Elliott, an earthquake geophysicist at the Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes and Tectonics at Oxford University in England.

    Earth's Energy Unleashed as Tectonic Plates Shift Gautam Naik 2011

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