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Europe’s Future Lies Under Africa … as tectonic plates grind and churn …EYE Report
WOW was all I could say as I read this article below … Earth's crust is actually changing it's floor plan …
I wondered how it would feel if the foundation of my home began to show it's face as a movable floor plan … and rooms gradually began to shift around … … and in their shifting the whole floor plan would change …
My living room to be in the space of my bed room … and my kitchen to be in the space of my bath room and so on …
It would be quite disturbing I guess … until I realized things were just moving back to their original design …
Now if the moving floor plan did it's thing very slowly … then I could probably step from moving room to moving room with no real harm during the process … but if things sped up …. then I guess I would have choose the best room to set still … until rooms stopped shifting …
Scientist in the article suggest that the final repositioning of the tectonic plates is not going to mature in the lifetime of a scientist ….
This may very well be true … but I do consider that all things are escalating in their turn of events .. and there are even reports indicating that 'days' are even shorter now …
Now if days have become shorter … they have the tendency of becoming even shorter as time speeds up … and with these events having their possibilities … this could mean that previous calculations of scientists … could just be off a few hundred years, even more …
And this would mean such a completion of moving tectonic plates could actually be seen by today's generation …
Even scriptures says …
Mark 13:20 (King James Version)
20 … And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
Europe's future lies under Africa, scientists suggest
Europe may be starting to burrow its way under Africa, geologists suggest.
The continents are converging; and for many millions of years, the northern edge of the African tectonic plate has descended under Europe.
But this process has stalled; and at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting last week, scientists said we may be seeing Europe taking a turn.
11 April 2011
Volcanoes such as Stromboli indicate powerful geological forces
at work in the Mediterranean
Europe may be starting to burrow its way under Africa, geologists suggest.
The continents are converging; and for many millions of years, the northern edge of the African tectonic plate has descended under Europe.
But this process has stalled; and at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting last week, scientists said we may be seeing Europe taking a turn.
If they are correct, this would signal the start of a new subduction zone – a rare event, scientifically fascinating.
Beneath the Mediterranean Sea, the cold, dense rock at the extreme north of the African plate has virtually all sunk under the Eurasian plate on which Europe sits.
But the African landmass is too light to follow suit and descend.
"Africa won't sink, but Africa and Europe continue to move together; so where is this taken up?" asked Rinus Wortel from the University of Utrecht.
"It looks possible that on the appropriate timescale, we are witnessing the beginning of subduction of Europe under Africa," he told BBC News.
The Mediterranean Sea's geological structure and history are quite complex.
The Utrecht group's analysis goes like this:
The slow convergence – just a few centimetres per year – was obstructed partially by collision of the two plates further East, in Turkey, and then by the fact that the lightness of the African continent prevented further subduction.
It's not going to mature in the lifetime of a scientist”
As a result, bits of the African plate that did subduct have broken off and are descending to the Earth's mantle.
To fill this gap, bits of the Eurasian plate have been pulled southwards across the Mediterranean, such as the Balearic Islands, Corsica and Sardinia. The same thing is happening with Crete.
And computer modelling suggests the end product of all this could be the initiation of subduction in the opposite direction from the past.
Additional evidence comes from observations of earthquakes.
"We see what motion occurs in the earthquakes, and we see that the fault planes dip towards the South," said Professor Wortel.
Glacial pace
Although the power of subduction zones to generate enormous events has been thrown into stark light once more by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami off the Japanese coast, the geology of the Mediterranean is very different.
Nevertheless, there is some concern among scientists that European countries are putting only small amounts of money into building a tsunami warning system for the region.
At the EGU, Stefano Tinti from the University of Bologna, Italy, said the EU collectively had put only about 8m euros into tsunami research over the last five years.
Over the same period, Germany alone funded the Indonesian early warning system to the tune of about 55m euros, he said.
"There was interest just after [the Asian tsunami of] 2004, and then interest rapidly decreased again," Professor Tinti, who until recently chaired an intergovernmental co-ordination group on tsunami in Europe, told reporters.
"It's very political; and putting together all these member states in order to co-operate and put money in – even though the sums are very small, was a very difficult task."
Although tsunamigenic earthquakes in the Mediterranean are smaller than the biggest ones around the Pacific rim, Magnitude 8 events have been recorded, such as the 1303 Crete quake whose tsunami devastated Heraklion and Alexandria.
Confirmation that European subduction had started could allow scientists to model the region better, and so make better assessments of earthquake and tsunami risk.
But the long timescales involved in geological processes make this a challenge.
"We'll keep track of the seismic activity to see whether it continues to indicate this underthrusting of the Mediterranean subsurface underneath North Africa," said Rinus Wortel.
“until I realized things were just moving back to their original design”. There is no original design, let alone you realizing what that would be.
“and at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting last week, scientists said we may be seeing Europe taking a turn.” ‘May’ does not mean it is, it means they have not got a clue.