According to current understanding, the kilometers-high salt pillars ('diapirs') seen at numerous locations throughout the world are the result of a millions-year-long progressive process of cold rock salt flow pushed upward by the overburden of dirt covering it. David Griggs (1939) proposed that plates of rock under high long-term stress behave like a fluid, have intrinsic viscosity, and may be represented using fluid dynamics equations. Griggs' theory was recently debunked as a succession of errors, each of which violated one or more academic research criteria, resulting in a gap in geological theory. The goal of this research is to close that gap. We describe diapirs as salt lava pushed upward in a short period of time through kilometres of muddy, back-and-forth rushing water. For the evolution of the Earth's geological appearance, this explanation involves the replacement of a catastrophe scenario for the known uniformitarian scenario. We present a catastrophe scenario that explains not just how diapirs arise, but also how the Earth's major geological features, such as waterflow-related geological macro-structures, emerge. The catastrophe scenario's outcome, in contrast to the uniformitarian scenario, is very consistent with actual geological and geophysical data.
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William DeJong
INI-Research, innovation and change inquiry, Delft, The Netherlands.
Gea Mulder
INI-Research, innovation and change inquiry, Delft, The Netherlands.
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