> Gravitational potential energy released by the subduction of this
> lithosphere is on the order of 10^28 J. This alone probably provided
> the energy necessary to drive Flood dynamics."~Steven A. Austin, D.
> Russell Humphreys, Larry Vardiman, John R. Baumgardner, Andrew A.
> Snelling and Kurt P. Wise,"Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: A Global
> Flood Model of Earth History," in Robert T. Walsh, editor, The
> Third International Conference on Creationism, (Pittsburgh:
> Creation Science Fellowship, 1994), p. 612
>
> Somebody should check me on this but I calculated 3231 K for the temperature
> of the surface of the earth after this event. This is approximately 3000
> deg. centigrade.
>
> 10^28 J/5.11 x 10^14 m^2=1.95 x 10^14 J/m^2 must be radiated in a year. or
> 6.1 million J/m^2/second for the year of the flood. Dividing this by the
> Stefan-Boltzman constant 5.667 x 10^-8 W/m^2/K^-4 = 3231 K. This is
> approximately 3000 deg. C I would say that they would cook.
>
> With my penchant for mathematical error would somebody please check me???
Looks OK if the 10^28 J is right.
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