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Originally Posted by aerohead
* Lightning can heat rock to more than 3,000-F ( 1,600-C)
* The boiling point of quartz rock is 2,230-C.
* As quartz 'steam' adiabatically cools to 2,229-C upon rising, it returns to liquid lava droplets, and at approximately 1,650-C would solidify to a quartz particulate aerosol.
* It appears that lightning would need an additional 630-C temperature increase in order to just get rock 'vapor' into the atmosphere.
* An electric arc welder generates 6,500-F. Welding vapors are not at escape velocity, and remain at Earth.
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Not talking about lightning. This woud be more like an inner most shell magnetic field collapse or some other unknown mechanism.
2,800 cubic miles of earth normally does not simply disappear, until it does.
We know the dirt didn't move by normal water erosion or a great flood.
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