also produced from the heat build up of pressure and movement in the region where the earths
crust meets the second layer. This second layer is called the mantle and it is much harder that the
crust. Due to rotation, axial wobble and the sheer weight of pressure the crust is in a state of
constant movement and is always rubbing against the mantle. This rubbing produces heat and
more magma which then creates a thin layer of ‘sludge’ between the crust and mantle and it has
been theorized that it is this thin layer of fluid-like sludge known as the lithosphere that
occasionally allows the crust to simply slip around the outside of the mantle. Just imagine a baked
potato wrapped in aluminum foil with the potato as the mantle and the foil as the crust, it is easy
to slip the foil around to the other side of the potato without changing the orientation of the actual
potato. In this type of scenario the actual planetary axis would not shift geographically but the
crust would reorient itself in relation to the mantle with catastrophic results. This would cause
drastic geographic and magnetic changes on the surface. You can image what kind of earthquakes
would occur on a planetary scale if the entire crust slipped around the mantle. It has been
predicted that in such a slip of the lithosphere most of the water on the planet would temporarily
relocate to the poles before spreading out around the globe again. The wall of water produced in
such an event would be well beyond anything that could be categorized as a ‘wave’.
In such an event the continent that is now located at the South Pole for example, could
theoretically move to different location and a new continent could literally take its place to begin
its own private ice age just as Antarctica is doing now.
Is such a slipping of the lithosphere possible? Yes unfortunately it is.
The earth is flying through space, and when I say flying, I mean really flying folks. I mean we
are really stepping out, pedal to the metal. The Earths rotational speed is about 1,000 miles per
hour and while we’re spinning like some huge top we’re also racing not stop around the sun.
Earth travels along its orbital plane at around 66,600 miles per hour (18.5miles per second). I
know it all seems nice and casual and peaceful while you just sit around on the surface reading or
whatever but folks we are really on the move. Earths axis is of course tilted to the perpendicular
at about 23.5 degrees which gives us our four seasons, but while we’re spinning at this angle we
are also wobbling slightly on this 23.5 degree axis. This slight discrepancy to the vertical
obliquity of the elliptic is an excursion of about 2.4 degrees in either direction from our true axis.
The full cycle of one wobble from 24.5 degrees to 22.1 degrees takes around 13,000 years to
complete in each direction giving us a round total of 26,000 from point A and back to point A and
providing us with the 26,000 year procession of the zodiac. You get all that? It seems solid on the
surface but it’s not really a totally stable rotation
One major factor contributing to a lithosphere slip could be the enormous and ever increasing
weight of the south polar ice cap. The Antarctic ice cap grows by an estimated 10,000,000 cubic
meters of ice a day just through normal condensation, dew and snow fall which generates an
incredible amount of added weight to the ice cap daily. When such weight is combined with axial
wobble and a layer of fluid like sludge between the crust and the mantle a sudden slip of the
lithosphere becomes a very real possibility and it would only take something like a celestial event
to serve as the catalyst to trigger it off.
A similar effect to that which creates the fluid layer found in the lithosphere can be seen on a
smaller scale in the south polar ice cap itself. The enormous weight of the ice resting on the
continent beneath it subjects the surface of the continent to a huge amount of pressure. Pressure
creates heat and when that is combined with tectonic movement the result is a thin layer of sludge
lying between the ice cap and the continent and one that is in a constant state of movement. Given
this fact, there is even the distinct likely hood that the entire south polar ice cap could even just
slip of the continent it’s resting on and into the ocean causing massive floods and Tsunamis world
wide. The great flood of Noah in the bible was said to have come from the south. The ancient
deluge spoken of in the Sumerian tales was reported to have come from the south. In fact it’s the
same in virtually all of the ancient myths that deal with or mention the flood in any detail at all.
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