....Mount Everest.

Fig.1.  Flat lying stratigraphy of Mt Everest.  Etched by snow, the flat-lying stratigraphy of Mount Everest testifies to the nonsense of crustal crumpling by plate collision in Plate Tectonics' type area for 'colliding plates'.

It is sheer nonsense to assert, as Plate Tectonics does, that the high terrain of the Himalayas is the result of crustal crumpling due to colliding plates - the Indian plate colliding with the Asian Plate.  I mean, ...look at it. Doesn't look crumpled to me, any more than the other supposed terrains of so called 'crumpled crust'.  Does it to you?

The sheer effrontery with which Plate Tectonicists  promote this stuff is breathtaking on a scale that can only be described as tectonic  (a worldful of scientists and scholars, mind you.)   And then, as if to show how really clever they are, they (the better informed) say, .."Well, ...it's not really crumpling the crust, is it?  I mean, ..look at it.  Only idiots would say it's crumpled.   It's just lifting it up. When India meets the Asian Plate the Asian Plate pushes it (the Indian Plate) down, thereby thickening the crust in that particular area."  .even though in the same breath they say that crust is buoyant and cannot be pushed down.

But what it does is lend credence to the notion that sometimes (when it likes, when it's thick enough) the continental crust  (/lithosphere) can push mantle crust down.   You see?  The lighter floating continental lithosphere can push other bits of crust down, as well as the denser mantle on which they are floating.  This is in fact called 'subduction', and is touted as the driver for Plate Tectonics. So you see? ... Hey Presto.  Hat magic.  The circle is closed. The crustal lithosphere pushes the mantle lithosphere (and any other crust upon it) down causing subduction and deformation of the crust - Plate Tectonic style.  The crust pushing the mantle down is the agent whereby the mantle (oceanic lithosphere barelling along) pushes the crust up.  I'd better run that past you again, because the nonsense of it seems to escape even the best of Ptero-logicians: ...The crust, just by sitting there, doing nothing, ..is the agent causing plate tectonics and crumpling itself all up, as well as emplacing the ocean floors.

Like ghost riders in the sky committed for ever to chase the devil's herd, theres no peace for this duo, .. committed forever to non-equilibrium, getting pushed up or pushed down according to the pronouncements of Pope Tectonics.

This by the way (the Himalayas) is the type area for crustal crumpling.  If that's not a joke, I don't know what is. And also (just by the way), that flat bit in the picture goes all the way around the Pacific (going east) and through the Alps (going west), <links> which means (when we close the Atlantic) it is circumglobal.  A  pretty big arsk, ..of little India, ... barrelling north (at 10cm a year because of dyke intrusion at the spreading ridge) to collide with Asia, ..and lift it up, is it not?  (Provided of course in the first place that it can find a way to cross the spreading ridge....)
 

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