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From: Richard McBane <rmcbane@netscape.net>
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Subject: Re: How Much Energy Required To Raise Mountains Via Ye Olde Flood(was Re: zzzz)
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 23:37:09 +0000 (UTC)
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Uncle Davey wrote:
> news:c03nk7$121j5a$1@ID-117948.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
>>"AC" <mightymartianca@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
>>news:slrnc25j72.os.mightymartianca@namibia.tandem...
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>>>On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:30:19 +0000 (UTC),
>>>Uncle Davey <noway@jose.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>news:slrnc258bp.1ck.mightymartianca@namibia.tandem...
>>>>
>>>>>On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:34:04 +0000 (UTC),
>>>>>Uncle Davey <noway@jose.com> wrote:
>>>
>>><snip>
>>>
>>>>>>It seems pretty clear from Gen 7 vv 19-20 that what they called
>>>>
>>>>mountains
>>>>
>>>>>>then were very small in comparison to today's mountains.
>>>>>
>>>>>Have you pondered for a moment how much energy would be required to
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> lift
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>>>>up
>>>>
>>>>>mountains from hills in just a few thousand years? The surface of
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> this
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>>>>>planet would be molten.
>>>>
>>>>Please show your workings.
>>>
>>>Well, let's ask the experts, Davey.
>>>
>>>So, anybody have some rough calculations on just how much energy would
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> be
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>>>required to raise the Himalayas, the Alps, the Andies and the Rockies
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> from
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>>>hills to the heights the reach today in say, 4,000 years? And just what
>>>would the surface of the planet be like with that much energy?
>>
>>To be conservative, start with giving the mountains a low average
>>density, say 2.2 g/cm^3 ==> 2.2 tonnes/m^3.
>>
>>Noelie
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>
> In what way is that low when it is so much higher than than of sandstone,
> chalk or coal?
>
> Uncle Davey
Looks reasonable sandstone and many other rocks according to:
http://www.mininglife.com/Miner/general/Density.htm
You would need a lot of low density materials to lower the number much
below the 2.2 g/cm^3. So what percentage of mountains do you think are
made up of low density material like coal?
Richard McBane
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