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What Predictions of the Hydroplate Theory Have Been Confirmed?
All the predictions of the hydroplate theory are summarized below. Confirmed predictions are in bold, and a partially missed prediction is in italics. Page numbers, where more information can be found, are in parentheses.
1. pooled water under mountains (124)
2. salty water in very deep granite cracks (125)
3. deep channels under Bosporus and Gibraltar (127)
4. fracture zones mark high magnetic intensity (136)
5. magnetic strength grows at hydrothermal vents (137)
6. granite layer deep under Pacific floor (156)
7. shallow-water fossils in and near trenches (157)
8. inner core’s spin is decelerating (165)
9. age sequences wrong for Hawaiian islands (166)
10. thin, parallel, extensive varves not under lakes (177)
11. sand dunes from Canyon (200)
12. unique chemistry of Grand and Hopi basins (202)
13. slot canyons have cracks up to 10 miles deep (204)
14. Grand Canyon’s inner gorge is a tension crack (205)
15. fault under East Kaibab monocline (217)
16. loess at bottom of ice cores (248)
17. muck on Siberian plateaus (249)
18. rock ice is salty (249)
19. carbon dioxide bubbles in rock ice (249)
20. muck particles in rock ice (249)
21. no fossils below mammoths (250)
22. radiocarbon dating mammoths (250)
23. ice age can be demonstrated (263)
24. salt on Mars (278)
25. moons around some comets (278)
26. mass of solar system heavier than expected (280)
27. a few comets reappear unexpectedly (280)
28. excess heavy hydrogen in 5+-mile-deep water (282)
29. salt and bacteria in comets (282)
30. Oort cloud does not exist (291)
31. no incoming hyperbolic comets (291)
32. argon only in comet crust (292)
33. asteroids are flying rock piles (301)
34. asteroid rocks are magnetized (303)
35. mining asteroids too costly (304)
36. ice on Themis will diminish (307)
37. water is inside large asteroids (307)
38. Mars’ sediments deposited through air (310)
39. heavy hydrogen in space ice (310)
40. carbon-14 in “old” bones (351)
41. bacteria on Mars (395)
42. spin rate and direction of Ceres (314)