The Formation of the Oceans
The formation of the oceans In the early twentieth century thought the Earth and other planets were formed from matter pulled from the Sun and circulated the image of an Earth gradual cooling process, from incandescent to white heat, to pass then a moderate heat and finally to the boiling point of water. Once cooled enough for water to condense the water vapor in the warm atmosphere of the Earth went to liquid and it started raining and raining and raining.
After many years of this incredible rain of boiling water jumped and howled when hitting the ground warm, the basins of the rugged surface of the planet eventually cooled enough to retain water, and be filled and the oceans.
Very dramatic … but absolutely false, we could almost secure.
Today, scientists believe that Earth and other planets were formed from the sun, but from particles that cluster around the same time that the Sun was brewing. Earth was never in the sun’s temperature, but became quite warm due to the collision energy of the particles that formed it. So much so that its mass is relatively small, was unable at first to hold an atmosphere or water vapor.
Or what is the same, the solid body of the newly formed Earth had no atmosphere or oceans. Where did then?
Of course there was water (and gas) combined with substances weakly rock that formed the solid portion of the globe. As the solid portion was packaged in an increasingly more compact under the pull of gravity, the interior was becoming hotter. The gases and water vapor that were expelled from their previous combination with the rock and left the solid.
Gas pumps, to form and join, shocked the young Earth with enormous upheaval, while the heat released by volcanic eruptions caused. For many years it fell not one drop of liquid water from heaven was more water vapor that came whistling in the cortex and then condense. The oceans were formed from above, not from below.
In what geologists do not agree today is the rate of formation of the oceans. Did it all the steam in about a billion years, so that the ocean is the current size since life began? Or is it a slow process in which the ocean has grown through the geological eras and growing yet?
Those who maintain that the ocean was formed at the very beginning of the game and has retained a constant size since then indicate that the continents appear to be a permanent feature of the Earth. It seems that they were much larger in the past, when the ocean was presumably much smaller.
Moreover, those who believe that the ocean has been growing steadily, indicate that volcanic eruptions spew massive amounts of still water vapor in the air: water vapor deep rocks, not the ocean. Furthermore, in the Pacific there are seamounts whose summits, flat, maybe they were at sea level before, but now there are hundreds of feet below him.
It may be possible to reach a compromise. It has been suggested that although the ocean has indeed been growing steadily, the weight of accumulated water caused the seabed yield. That is, the oceans have grown steadily in depth, not breadth. Which would explain the presence of these marine submerged plateaus and also the existence of the continents.
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