Re: Hypothesis Involving Planetoid Impacts

On 02 Dec 2003 13:32:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Professor Gauss)
wrote:


>>> You state that the mantle is solid, and (later) that the only liquid
>>portion of
>>> the earth's interior is the outer core.  I thought that the mantle was
>>liquid
>>> and thus supports continental drift.
>>
>>No.  The mantle is a solid that behaves as a plastic due to heat and
>>pressure.  Hence it flows, albeit slowly.
[...]
>
>OK.  Thank you.


Just like a glacier. Although ice is solid, a glacier flows It behaves
in long terms similar o a fluid.

Gunnar

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