The Sound of Settled Science: Missing Rocks Edition

[Weatherman2020]

Around the world, miles of rock are missing. Could ‘Snowball Earth’ be the culprit?

Could have been ice.
More likely a giant worldwide flood though.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

Ok, ok. Maybe the science of geology isn’t settled, but climate is so easy and uncomplicated, there are just so very few factors and unknowns in climate science. It’s much easier to predict. Just look all the models.

 

[Oddball]

We need westwall to comment on this, for sure.

 

[westwall]

I remember when the theory was first presented. There is ample evidence of global glaciation in the distant past, so i personally have never had a problem with it. Of course the one big issue is the world was a water world for the vast majority of its time. The first continent UR, was smaller than Australia and formed about 3 billion years ago. For the next two billion years not much happened on the continent forming front until UR merged with NENA and ATLANTICA to form RODINIA.

That first super continent was it, and it wasn't all that big, so yeah, a global flood is not just likely, it was a fact. Only it wasn't a flood, it simply was there wasn't a lot of land to erode in the first place. Interestingly though, there are parts of UR that still remain, they are found incorporated into India, Africa, and Australia. There is a theory that a continent existed before UR, but there is no evidence for its existence that i know of.

So, "Snowball Earth" is not really a stretch knowing what we know about the climate changes that the Earth has undergone.

 

[skookerasbil]

Weather.........thought you were talking about Old Rocks. The losing has been so ePiC in here in recent months, we rarely see him in here anymore.