What mystery? It's obviously the mouth of a space leech that attached itself to the viewport just when the astronaut clicked the pic.
Mysterious Geologic Structure Seen from Space
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SH!T!! Thought this post had something to do with a colonoscopy, or something along those lines.
Must have been going by the pic in the OP and comparing it to a photo of your colon on a good day.
It seemed apt to me. Maybe I'll switch to mynah birds after Spade's lesson though.
Why would you attempt to show yourself as 'all knowing' when you have just been tuned in about parrots. Does 'fantasy' refer to the crow part of what I've posted or is it an sudo answer to molten rock being spun at a specific speed over a specific period of time that would result in banding based on the specific gravity of any given part of the globe. The lighter elements (molten) would rise to the top and remain there and not make the journey back to the core for reheating instead it went through the day/night cycle endlessly and it would have been the very first part of the earth to be called 'land'. A crust made from water thin magma is going to crumble but float, even to the point of stacking. The steppes in Russia are from an ancient outflow of basalt over millions of years yet it looks like giant slabs of shale and no ocean around
Say you have the molten earth and it is perfectly smooth as it spins and being undisturbed by large collisions ith banding by density is stable in the outer parts to the point it is 'floating' and the heat it gets is radiated through it as magma rubs along the bottom it is either going to rub some of the crust away or add particles to it. With a certain amount of crust above it and more being added to it from below all the time the lower crust would be under lots of pressure and the stone at the surface today was created way back when the crust was quite thin and the crust that was above has no just been eroded away. If ice-sheets can cause changes in mountain valleys them something twice the density of granite is going to have an effect on the very lowest parts of the crust that can be considered to be 'solid' and they are eroding away from their 'original form' and at some point the rock that is just now becoming solid should one day see the light of day as the 25km of rock on top of it is finally eroded away by natural weathering. The first parts of permanent crust would have been above the spots whet magma has cooled and it is beginning to sink and return to the lower part of the mantel where it is reheated and thew cycle repeats itself and the crust gradually gets thicker. What parts of that 'fantasy' break any physics laws of today?
Magma would still act like a file and the part that broke off would still be floating on top, mixing and grinding and binding to other such new part of the crust. Seen any studies about how magma actually scours the lowest parts of the crust?
Say you have the molten earth and it is perfectly smooth as it spins and being undisturbed by large collisions ith banding by density is stable in the outer parts to the point it is 'floating' and the heat it gets is radiated through it as magma rubs along the bottom it is either going to rub some of the crust away or add particles to it. With a certain amount of crust above it and more being added to it from below all the time the lower crust would be under lots of pressure and the stone at the surface today was created way back when the crust was quite thin and the crust that was above has no just been eroded away. If ice-sheets can cause changes in mountain valleys them something twice the density of granite is going to have an effect on the very lowest parts of the crust that can be considered to be 'solid' and they are eroding away from their 'original form' and at some point the rock that is just now becoming solid should one day see the light of day as the 25km of rock on top of it is finally eroded away by natural weathering. The first parts of permanent crust would have been above the spots whet magma has cooled and it is beginning to sink and return to the lower part of the mantel where it is reheated and thew cycle repeats itself and the crust gradually gets thicker. What parts of that 'fantasy' break any physics laws of today?
Magma would still act like a file and the part that broke off would still be floating on top, mixing and grinding and binding to other such new part of the crust. Seen any studies about how magma actually scours the lowest parts of the crust?
But it sells more print than just saying "oh yea we found another hole in the dirt"
What about igneous breccia? it really can be formed in many ways to make it a breccia.
I've never done any such thing, that's just a transference of your insecurity in the face of someone who understands far more than you ever will, and expresses it much better.
Yes, there are multiple origins for breccias, but an igneous breccia would have caused significant metamorphosis, which I didn't see mentioned, so it seemed reasonable to assume its a sedimentary breccia. That's the usual default when it's not qualified any other way as, for instance, a tectonic breccia or a pyroclastic breccia. Or at least it was when I was learning this stuff.
For sure it is sedimentary and an anticline and not a syncline(not to be confused with Ralph Klien).
I wonder if theres any Ammonites in there.
Here's a small sample of my collection of cephalopods and Ammonites of the Pierre seaway collected from my fossil dig in Southern Alberta.
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