Plate Tectonics and Flat-Earth

Ok lets assume the earth is flat, and that gravity is a lie and that all other untangible evidence is either a lie or has been doctored by a conspiracy. Can we then deny volcanoes (mt. st. helens in washington blew in 1980, and is bubble right now) and earth quakes (i used to live in los angeles where the earthquake report is part of the daily tv news). how does this work? are volcanoes and earthquaks rumblings when god is upset? if u belive in round earth, and that the earth's center is made up of molten metal and magma under intense pressures, then it makes sense (sorry i have a very vague description, but ur on the internet and there are plenty of ways to find sources of information on this topic that ill let you discover on your own) anyways i dont know if this has been discussed yet but i think it is an interesting point of arguement.

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We dont know the exact thickness of the flat earth only that it is flat. Magma flaw is active in the earth as the scientists claim

but what about the san andreas fault, you can map it out by land, or proably see evidence of it from an airplane. its the line where 2 big plates are clashing in california, its part of the "ring of fire" that surrounds the pacific ocean. how can it be explained with the scientific method, without the idea od a round earth with plate tectonics?

Well your point is well taken.  I assume that this can all happen under a flat earth model.  Simply all the activity of the faults would happen in the thickness of the Earth. Mabey I missunderstood you post I am sorry if I did.

ok so basically your saying you dont have a technical explaination, or detailed information on how volcanoes, plate tectonics, and faults (the cracks in the earth were 2 plates are crunching against each other) in the flat-world? doesnt that ever make you think or wonder? i like you bullhorn because you seem very nice, and i would like to get an interesting discussion going about this. in the flat-earth theory how does volcanoes and lava work?

Digging up an old thread. Im interested in tectonics too.
Basically, the face of the earth is made up from large plates of land that 'float' on a 'sea' of molten rock.

First of all, yes, this does exist. The government doesnt place dynamite under mountains and call them volcanoes. All through history there is undeniable evidence of volcanic activity.
At that, there is also undeniable evidence of tectonic movement, as stated here, the saint andreas fault is an example.

So, you would have to agree that we do have magma below our feet, and we do have tectonic plates.

Firstly, why doesnt the magma MELT your ice wall?
Secondly, why doesnt the movement of the tectonic plates fracture and damage this wall? By now surely one would have broken down the side of the wall.



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Digging up an old thread. Im interested in tectonics too.
Basically, the face of the earth is made up from large plates of land that 'float' on a 'sea' of molten rock.

First of all, yes, this does exist.

Yea, we know.

Firstly, why doesnt the magma MELT your ice wall?

Why doesn't the magma MELT your Antarctica?

Secondly, why doesnt the movement of the tectonic plates fracture and damage this wall? By now surely one would have broken down the side of the wall.

The outgoing plates subduct at the ice wall.

Why doesn't the magma MELT your Antarctica?

occassionally it does for starters.
However what im saying is that if this disk we live on is encompassed by a wall of ice, im assuming the wall goes right down to the bottom of the oceans on all sides, right? Areas of ocean floor where the crust can be thinner than on the land, lots of heat can escape. Occassionally the magma is infact exposed, superheating water around it etc, causing underwater steam gysers. If theres a giant wall of ice that goes all the way to the ocean floor, then by now it would have melted the bottoms out of it and all the water escaped, as unlike antarctica, your wall is just ice, not rock, earth, and everything else that makes up the continent.
You'd be pretty daft to think that antarctica is just a floating ice block.

The outgoing plates subduct at the ice wall.

Most of our continents are actually located ON these plates. If they just subduct under the bloody wall each time they hit it, im sure lots of people would notice.

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Why doesn't the magma MELT your Antarctica?

occassionally it does for starters.
However what im saying is that if this disk we live on is encompassed by a wall of ice, im assuming the wall goes right down to the bottom of the oceans on all sides, right?

Wrong.  The ice wall is on LAND.

 If they just subduct under the bloody wall each time they hit it, im sure lots of people would notice.

People live on the ocean floor near Antarctica? :shock:

well if the ice wall is on land, that would explain it not being melted, fair enough.

And if you havnt been to the ocean floor near antarctica, you have no way to tell if people dont live on the bottom.

OH NO!
Thats exactly how your whole flat earth theory is based! You havnt seen the ice wall, you merely THINK its there.....



By the way, the tectonic plates wouldnt move anywhere near as much as they do if they where all confined in a ring of ice-wall, however, being on a spherical surface like they are, they can constantly move as there is no boundries.

i would say im curious as to where the pressure comes from if theres no gravity. Moving upwards doesnt cut it.

What they are saying is that the "disk" is accellerating upwards at a uniform rate; 9.8m/s^2. However if its a flat disk then there would be no real pressure there anyway as the magma wouldnt be contained. It would just fall out the bottom. Oh well.

Well, except that it's contained within the crust and is being accelerated along with the rest of us.

magma isnt contained within the earths crust mate, the crust actually sits on top of it. Hence why it occassionally breaks through.

So...the spherical earth...has no bottom?  Seeing how you say that the crust doesn't contain the magma.

lol, i actually read your post as the magma being physically contained within the crust itself.

Question however, with the flat earth model, is there crust on the other side? Or you dont know?


Thinking about that, however, whats to say that the whole "flat earth" you guys so dearly believe to be true, is... actually, wait, i dont want to risk some wanker coming in here and going "DO A SEARCH ROFL LOLZ" at me... scrap that, a topic may appear shortly.


---back to my point before however----
how do the plates move so much then if they are contained in an ice wall? Wouldnt they sit fairly solidly?

if the icewalls as big as i can imagine your head is, it would be able to allow quite substantial movement within it

lol jj, u have some reasonable points