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by Dr. Walt Brown.
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Conclusion
By assuming a uniform density distribution throughout the preflood Earth (altered only by the compressive stress that increases with depth), the hydroplate theory and gravitational settling answer the many questions raised in “Volcanoes and Lava” on page 113 and “Geothermal Heat” on page 114. This also explains why the inner core spins faster than the rest of the Earth (page 157), and why George Dodwell found that the tilt of the Earth’s spin axis has steadily changed during the last 4,000 years. [See page 116 and Endnote 65 on page 139.] Finally, the hydroplate theory and gravitational settling explain the following unusual characteristics of today’s Earth:
- the huge density discontinuity at the core-mantle boundary (highlighted in yellow on page 519),
- Earth’s liquid outer core and solid inner core,
- “oceans” of flood basalts found worldwide, especially in and surrounding the Pacific and Indian Oceans,
- the 40,000 volcanoes (all taller than 1 kilometer) on the floor of the Pacific Ocean,
- the great variability of the temperature gradient under the Earth’s surface (discussed on page 114), and
- Earth’s powerful magnetic field—2,000 times greater than the combined magnetic fields of all the rocky planets. [See "The Origin of Earth’s Powerful Magnetic Field" on page 158.]