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Subsequent cooling increased the density of the new ocean floor, producing deeper ocean basins and a reservoir for post-Flood oceans. When virtually all the pre-Flood oceanic floor had been replaced with new,less-dense, less-subductable, oceanic crust, catastrophic plate motion stopped. Rapid emplacement of isostatically lighter mantle material raised the level of the ocean floor, displacing ocean water onto the continents. Upwelling magma jettisoned steam into the atmosphere causing intense global rain. Flow induced in the mantle also produced rapid extension along linear belts throughout the sea floor and rapid horizontal displacement of continents. Large plumes originating near the core/mantle boundary expressed themselves at the surface as fissure eruptions and flood basalts. Cool oceanic crust which descended to the core/mantle boundary induced rapid reversals of the earth's magnetic field. A resulting thermal runaway of the slabs through the mantle led to meters-per-second mantle convection. Deformation of the mantle by these slabs raised the temperature and lowered the viscosity of the mantle in the vicinity of the slabs. The Flood was initiated as slabs of oceanic floor broke loose and subducted along thousands of kilometers of pre-Flood continental margins. Geophysically, we begin with a pre-Flood earth differentiated into core, mantle, and crust, with the crust hOrizontally differentiated into sialic craton and mafic ocean floor. We would like to propose a catastrophic plate tectonics theory as a framework for earth history. Catastrophic plate tectonics theories, such as Snider proposed more than a century ago, appear capable of explaining a wide variety of data - including Biblical and geologic data which the slow tectonics theories are incapable of explaining. Modem plate tectonics theory is now confiated with assumptions of uniformity of rate and ideas of continental 'drift'. In 1859 Antonio Snider proposed that rapid, horizontal divergence of crustal plates occurred during Noah's Flood.
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