Author: Andrew MacRae (macrae@pandora.geo.ucalgary.ca) Title: Ted Holden's world (with uue
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Author: Andrew MacRae (macrae@pandora.geo.ucalgary.ca)
Title: Ted Holden's world (with uuencoded GIF image)
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This file contains notes for the bitmap image file
"jurassic.gif" which is uuencoded at the end of this file. It is a
map of the continental positions in the Jurassic, roughly the time in
which the "supercontinent" of Pangaea existed (or the most recent
occurrence of such a supercontinent). The point of this illustration
is to assess the implications of Ted Holden's
(uunet!fedfil!news@cs.utexas.edu) modified Velikovskyian-style model.
Ted is not too clear about how his "Golden Age" (I hope I got the
terminology right) matches conventional geologic time, but he does
place two constraints:
1. large dinosaurs were present
2. Pangaea existed (i.e. all the continents were grouped into one
"supercontinent")
that suggest the conventional geologic time periods
he is considering. They must be in the early part of the Mesozoic,
probably Triassic or Jurassic, since large dinosaurs were only present
in the Mesozoic, and Pangaea was together in the Triassic, but beginning
to rift apart. By Jurassic, the continents were still close
together, but by the Cretaceous, the Atlantic Ocean (for example) was
formed from the southern tip of S. America to Greenland. However, to
explain the presence of huge dinosaurs in the Cretaceous that
"could not exist in today's gravity" (according to Ted's model), perhaps
the Cretaceous should be included too?
Anyway, I do not mean to suggest that Ted's "Golden Age" corresponds
to the approximately 245 to 144 million years ago range of the
Triassic-Jurassic, because, obviously, the time scale of Ted's model is
substantially different.
The purpose of the exercise is to allow comparison of geologic data to
the predictions of Ted's model, in the proper geographic context. So the
paleogeographic map in "jurassic.gif" is roughly the geometry we can use for
the comparison. Ted has said the model he is proposing has Pangaea
continental positions, so here they are.
I have plotted the locations of the proposed geographic pole of Ted's
model - approximately over the Afar Triangle region of east Africa. I have
also added the locations of several dinosaur localities to demonstrate that
they occur very close to the "paleoequator" of his model. This could cause
some problems with the mechanism of balancing forces Ted has proposed to
explain how such heavy dinosaurs could lift themselves, since the force
they would experience is not normal (i.e. vertical) at those points.
Note that as the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods continue, the
Atlantic Ocean continues to spread, and the angular distance between
the Afar Triangle and the Cretaceous localities becomes greater - to
the point that they would lie in the "dark" hemisphere of Ted's model.
Selected localities:
1. = Jurassic Morrison Formation, Utah and Wyoming
2. = Late Triassic and Early Jurassic Fundy Group, Nova Scotia
3. = late Cretaceous Judith River Formation and Edmonton Group, Alberta
4. = late Cretaceous, North Slope, Alaska
5. = late Cretaceous Bylot Island, along Baffin Bay
6. = Cretaceous, north-central China
Paleogeography: Smith, A.G., Hurley, A.M., and Briden, J.C., 1981. Phanerozoic
paleocontinental world maps. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, p.1-102.
ISBN 0-521-23258-9
I chose the polar projection because it is easier to visualize the angular
distances. The map is centred on the mid-Jurassic paleopole (as determined by
paleomagnetic inclinations).
I leave the interpretation of the data, or detection
of flaws in the comparison, to you. I welcome comments, especially from
Ted.
Note: to retrieve the following GIF image, simply run the program
uuencode on this file.
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