Mountains buckling

frosty

Someone mentioned to me that the layers that buckled to form mountains were not the entire depth of the hydroplates that slid; he poses the question:

"Why were only the top surface layers buckled, instead of the entire thickness of the hydroplates?"

He mentions the Alps, Appalachians and Himalayas, for which he says only the top surface buckled.

Please reply with any discussion or with any clarification of this. Thanks.

ellen

My understanding is that the buckled layers of sedimentary rock happened (for the most part) during the Compression Event, as the layers slid due to sudden deceleration, like when you jerk forward when your car stops suddenly. Wet layers would slide even before the plates had a chance to buckle. So both things happened-- the sediments slid, and the plates buckled. Our continents are a complex mixture of both things. I also allow for both sliding and buckling happening more than once--the plates might have slid in smaller ways after the first big slide. I would imagine that there were some serious "aftershocks" in the days/weeks/months after the official Flood period. That's my understanding, anyway. Perhaps someone else will have another helpful insight.

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