DOI: 10.31038/GEMS.2019112

Abstract

In this paper, the spectral characteristics of seismic data obtained at various seismic stations in Antarctica are studied using the spectral histogram method developed by the authors and the study of regional structures. This takes into account the fundamental features of the geological, geophysical and astrophysical picture of the entire continent; significant component of fragile crustal structures. The possibility of the existence in the polar region of the ancient structures of the plume during its formation experienced the impact of centrifugal forces from the rotation of the Earth and the inhibition of the top of the plume in the low-temperature near-surface layer. One of the most significant attractions of the region is the existence of a large-sized ozone “hole”. All the above features have found their reflection in the seismic fields of Antarctica.

Keywords

Antarctica, seismic fields, plume tectonics, ozone holes, modulated solar wind, solar oscillations

Introduction

Probable plume tectonics It is likely that the Antarctic bears the signs of a super plume (Fig. 1). A similar example of a modern “hot spot” is about. Iceland. The thickness of the ocean-type crust under this island reaches 40 km. (usually the thickness is 7 km). Paleo – Iceland’s counterparts – a giant Antarctic uplift, etc. Until now, volcanic activity has been observed in Antarctica (Figure 1).

Figure 1. There is an example of the plume development. At the final stage, the tip of the Antarctic plume, due to the anomalously cooled surface rocks of the crust, will assume a more subtle and probably not continuous form.

The modern map of Antarctica quite well shows similarities with the elements of the super – plume  (Fig. 2.) (Figure. 2a,b).

Figure 2. A, B. This is modern map of Antarctica. With the exception of the peninsula, the coasts are rounded, forming a super plume.

Given the thickness of the ice cover (up to 9 km), and the structure of the crustal rocks, as well as thermal and coastal processes, we should expect the existence of various seismic fields. In addition, there are many caves in the coastal zone, possibly remnants from the periphery of the plume. During the Second World War, a submarine base of Germany existed in the caves off the coast. There is the existence of the ozone hole over the continent. Large-scale, ozone-free atmospheric space above the continent (Figure 3) makes radical additions to the description of Antarctic seismicity. There are such effects that are impossible for terrestrial seismicity. The absence of ozone protection makes available the effect on the surface of many solar processes: radiation (from ultraviolet radiation to x-rays and gamma radiation), solar cosmic rays and flares, muons, modulated solar wind and interplanetary shock waves (MUV). A similar picture is observed for lunar seismicity. Many of the effects are almost constantly modulated, for example, by solar oscillations which make it possible to observe waves at solar frequencies in the spectrum of the seismic field (Table 1).

Figure 3. Map of the ozone hole over Antarctica.

Table 1. Periods of oscillations of the standard model of the Sun with the relative content of heavy elements Z = 0.02 according to calculations by Iben n Makhefi

In Table 1: p, g, f-modes of the natural oscillations of the Sun; L-form of natural oscillations.

Moreover, the excitation of these waves is not due to the indirect interaction of terrestrial radioactive geological structures with solar neutrinos, but directly. This means that instrumental and methodological development of seismic expeditions to the Moon, Mars and other space bodies devoid of ozone protection should be carried out on Antarctica, as the closest to the external conditions of the landfill (Figure 3).

The ozone hole over the Antarctic and its adjacent territories is quite dynamic: it grew for the first time in recent years, covering an area of 28 million square kilometers (press service of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). Previously, the ozone layer was considered to be a natural shield that protects the surface of the Earth from hard ultraviolet radiation, which is dangerous to living organisms. Now it is a parameter of the atmosphere, which allows studying the Sun, solar-terrestrial relations and some astrophysical problems. A sharp drop in the concentration of stratospheric ozone during the winter season was first detected over the Antarctica in the 1980s. Every winter, the ozone hole over Antarctica grows, reaching a maximum area in September, and shrinking in summer. Large sizes fully correspond to how ozone behaves in relatively cold weather in the upper atmosphere of the Earth (Paul Newman, Paul Newman, USA). Due to the slow reduction, the thickness of the ozone layer in some deep regions of the Antarctic has fallen to absolute zero for the first time in many years. This means that the Suns freely “bombard” the polar ice that is under similar areas, for example, the Amundsen – Scott station at the South Pole. The level of ozone began to fall sharply in September, with the result that its concentration decreased by 95% by the first of October. This year, the fall continued for two “extra weeks”, which led to a 100% decrease in the level of ozone by October 15”says another climatologist, Brian Johnson, USA. However, the smaller ozone hole in 2017 is the result of natural variability and is not necessarily a signal of rapid “healing”. Scientists use the word “hole” as a metaphor for an area in which the ozone concentration falls below the historical threshold of 220 Dobson units. A sharp drop in the concentration of stratospheric ozone during the winter season was first discovered over Antarctica in the 1980s. The reason for this was the release of a large number of Freon’s into the atmosphere of the Earth, whose molecules destroy ozone in the upper layers of the atmosphere at low air temperatures. Every winter, the ozone hole over Antarctica grows, reaching a maximum area in September, and shrinking in summer. January 29, 2016, 14:31 – January 27, a huge ozone hole covered northern Eurasia from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Most of it fell on the territory of Russia. The anomaly center is located in the north of Western Siberia, however, the effect of ozone holes is not yet known to seismologists.  Observations in 2017 showed that the hole in the ozone layer of the Earth, which forms over Antarctica at the end of the southern winter, has become the smallest since 1988. According to NASA satellites, the ozone hole reached its one-year maximum of September 11, spreading to 7.6 million square miles (19.6 sq. km), which is 2.5 times the area of the United States. Ground-based measurements and measurements from balloons, carried out by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, confirmed satellite data. Since 1991, the average maximum area of ozone holes has been approximately 26 million square kilometers (Fig. 4.)  (Figure  4).

In view of the above, a start was made to study the seismic fields of Antarctica (Figure 5).

As follows from Figure 5, considerable seismic material has been collected and processed, primarily relating to the coastal zone and partly of the shelf The IRIS Data Management Center (IRISDMC): http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/dataselect/1/. The study of data was started with spectral analysis (see Fig. 6) (Figure 6).

Figure 4. Concentration of ozone over Antarctica. October, 2017. © NASA

Figure 5. Seismic recording of LHZ-component 60 channel Streckeisen STS-2.5 sensor IU network of QSPA station (89.9289°S, 144.4382°E). The record contains 2265013 seconds. For convenience, the graphical representation is averaged over 120 points in 1 minute increments.

Figure 6. There is amplitude spectrum of seismic data in the range from 2 to 102 sec. in increments of 0.01 seconds. with averaging values of 1 sec.

According to fig.6 the spectrum of seismicity has two peaks dominant in amplitude, for 18 and 20 sec., which, probably, given the proximity of the ocean, should be referred to as “storm” and note also the existence of resonant structures at the Antarctic ice sheet (Figure 7).

Figure 7. There is the energy spectrum of data Figure 6.

The energy spectrum revealed a more subtle structure of the peaks, at 4 and 18 sec. These peaks are not uncommon when considering seismic fields of complexly constructed and non-linear structures. For greater clarity, the same seismic material was processed by a more complex, but informative method (Fig.8 A, B)  (Figure 8 a,b).

Figure 8. A, B. These are dependence of the maximum amplitude of seismic vibrations A) and its logarithm B), from the observation time and the corresponding period. The interval of the period change is from 2 to 102 sec with a step of 0.1 sec. The time step is 2 minutes (120 seconds). The window is 628 seconds.

According to Fig. 8 (A) for several days, resonant peaks of good quality on micro seismic periods of 14–20 sec can be observed in the wave field; their double period manifests itself in the form of ill-galling small amplitude manifestations. According to Fig. 8 (B) in Antarctica in the general seismic wave field it is possible to distinguish three groups of waves with ranges of periods: relatively high-frequency (periods 3–25 seconds), the longest and with maximum amplitude (periods 49–60 seconds) and short duration of existence as a single peak on period ~ 100 sec. Probably, the longest are associated with existing in the coastal zone and on the shelf of the network of caves and channels (Figure 9).

Figure 9. There is the dependence of the logarithm of the maximum amplitude of oscillations on the observation time.

According to Fig. 9, there are two independent types of noise – one high-frequency, constantly existing with an unstable modulation frequency (~ 4–5 days) and the second in the form of very short irregular high-amplitude emissions (Figure 10,11).

Figure 10. The dependence of the period corresponding to the logarithm of the maximum amplitude of oscillations from the time of observation.

The dependence of the logarithm of the maximum amplitude on the period (Fig. 11) most clearly highlights the zone 3.0 – 7–8.0 s, that is, a known section of storm microseisms. Since such habitual microseisms are usually recorded, for example, in the Baltic and in Europe, and the geological and structural environment of this region and the Antarctic are fundamentally different, a source of probable general influence should be found. Since high-frequency solar oscillations have a constant activity, especially at periods of 5–6 min, and the lack of ozone protection from the Sun allows for higher frequency effects, these microseisms are inherently strongly associated with solar activity. Another, even more active area lies within 20–25 seconds, which is also recorded in other regions of the Earth (Figure-12).

Figure 11. The dependence of the logarithm of the maximum amplitude of oscillations on the period.

Figure 12. The density distribution of the maximum amplitude of the period.

The distribution of the maximum amplitude over periods divides the seismic vibrations into two groups – powerful ~ 3–6 sec and weak, but connected as resonant harmonics ~ 18–20 sec., which was observed earlier in other regions of the Earth (Figure 13–20).

Figure 13. There is amplitude spectrum from 2 to 302 min with a step of 0.03 min.

Figure 14. The dependence of the period corresponding to the maximum amplitude of oscillations from the time of observation.

Figure 15. Dependence of the logarithm of the maximum amplitude of oscillations on the period

Figure 16. The density distribution of the maximum amplitude of the period.

Figure 17. The dependence of the period corresponding to the maximum amplitude of oscillations from the time of observation.

Figure 18. The density distribution of the maximum amplitude of the period.

Figure 19. The dependence of the logarithm of the maximum amplitude of oscillations on the time of observation and the corresponding period. The interval of the period is change from 2 to 302 minutes. in 0.3 min steps Time step 2 min. Window – 314 minutes.

Figure 20. There is energy spectrum data Figure 19.

This energy spectrum characterizes the constant component. Therefore, it is still early to draw final conclusions about their reliability and significance. We must try to modify the program a bit, or use the resonance method (Table-2).

Table 2. Distribution of time intervals for which the periods correspond (N≥10)

This table could also be rebuilt according to a different number of intervals by period. It is noteworthy that in the range of 28÷103 min the number of intervals is very small (Table 3) (Figure 21) (Table 4).

Figure 21. There is amplitude spectrum of the daily range.

Table 3. The distribution of time intervals for which the periods correspond to A_max

Table 4. The summary of daily periods.

Conclusion

As expected, (see Tables 2–4), the structure of the seismic fields of Antarctica is saturated with wave fields determined by cosmic processes, primarily by the Sun’s own oscillations (see Table 1). Seismic Antarctica turns it into a unique and indispensable landfill for testing and testing of seismic and geophysical equipment intended for the study of the Moon and planets.

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The conception of the universe through the ages

Let us first speak, in Astronomy, of the original conception of the Universe, based on appearances. Every man, sailing on the sea, far from the coast, in good weather, sees the sky horizontally, in all directions, and vertically. He speaks of “celestial vault,’’ an apparent sphere on which, by clear night, moves, together with the stars “carried” by it. That was what was described by Aristotle in his “De Coelo”. Four centuries later, the astronomer Claude Ptolémée, in his work “L’Almageste”, reporting on measurements of the positions of known planets he had compiled, consecrated the philosophical theory of Aristotle as a scientific theory, which were taught in Christian universities in the Middle Ages. However, in the 3rd century BC, Aristarchus of Samos, adopting also the existence of the sphere of the fixed stars, postulated that the sun was the center. There were then, in the time of Ancient Greece and Rome, two philosophical schools, which agreed on the existence of this sphere carrying the fixed stars, but opposed on which star was at the center, either the Earth or the sun. This quarrel would re-emerge in the midst of Christianity in the Middle Ages. Copernicus, canon and astronomer, wondering about the irregular orbits described by the planets around the Earth, completed the calculations of the positions of the planets of Ptolemy and “demonstrated” that they revolved around the sun; he, however, attributed to them, by his approximate calculations of their distance from the sun, circular orbits which Kepler soon showed to be ellipses whose sun was a focus. Copernicus reported his theory in the work “De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium”, published in 1543, which was sent after his death, by his friend Osiander, to Pope Paul III.

In his Preface, Copernicus, applying to the Earth the status of a planet, affirmed without proving that it revolved around the sun, and that, therefore, it was the sun that was the center of the world, quoting Trismegistus. who called the sun “visible god”. Pope Paul III and his successors did not react. Tycho Brahé, astronomer of the king of Denmark, made at this time many measurements of the position and distance of the planets in the solar system, that Kepler would use and supplement by the particular study of Mars, which would lead him to formulate his three Laws in “Astronomia Nova” and “Harmonices Mundi”. Tycho Brahé had just remarked that the apparent position of the sun and the planets, seen from the Earth, remained the same whether the sun revolved around the Earth or vice versa. But the temptation to consider the Earth as any other planet was too strong and Kepler adopted the Copernicus hypothesis.

Then came Galileo. The latter, a teacher at the University of Padua and persuaded of his success in astronomy, affirmed himself high and strong Copernican.

The Church then reacted by the decree of 1616, which condemned two Copernican propositions:

1. The sun is the center of the world, and
2. The Earth is not the center of the world and moves.

Despite this condemnation, Galileo wrote “Il Dialogo” which will have him condemned in 1633, by the Holy Office.

The first proposition of Galileo: “The sun is the center of the world and it is absolutely deprived of local movement”, was also condemned by the Tribunal of the Holy Office in the following terms: “it is absurd and false in philosophy and formally heretical as contrary to the Holy Scriptures “.

The second proposition: “The earth is not the center of the world and it moves not only in space but also diurnal movement on itself”, was also considered “absurd and false in philosophy and (to) be theologically considered at least erroneous in faith “.

Galileo did not demonstrate that the sun was the center of the world. But the condemnation of the second proposition results from the influence of Aristotle within the Church.

This condemnation created reactions among philosophers.

To start with, the “Discourse on the Method” of Descartes (1637), considered that a complete mathematization of science, made science no longer rest on facts, but first on clear and distinct ideas, making reason the natural light, hence the “philosophy of enlightenment”. This will not be without consequences on the other scientific disciplines, as we will see in geology, because rationalism reverses scientific reasoning, when, instead of relying on the observed and experienced facts from which hypotheses are induced, it privileges the a priori of reason as its foundation: principles, postulates, laws …, and retains only the facts, sometimes misinterpreted, which comfort them. Thus, from Descartes to Hegel, the rationalisms developed, first against the Church, as Voltaire is the example, then against the monarchy, in France, where the Revolution generated the terror of Robespierre and the wars of Napoleon.

Astronomy

In 1958, the journal of the Ecole Polytechnique published an article by Maurice Allais, X31, Nobel Prize in Economics, who was interested in gravimetry by making pendular experiments, showing that, besides the FOUCAULT effect, the result of the diurnal rotation of the Earth, an azimuthal displacement was manifested. In addition, pendulous experiments initiated by Maurice ALLAIS during solar eclipses also revealed an azimuthal displacement of the pendulum. This, according to Maurice ALLAIS questioned the law of Newton, which led me to read the book of Newton, the “Principia Mathematica”,  published in 1687, where he expressed his laws.

In his work, he writes in his PROPOSITION VI, page 82: “That the fall of the grave, takes place in equal times while ignoring, at least, the delay caused by a very weak existence of the air, others than me have observed it for a long time”. Newton then formulates new laws of motion.

Law 1: “All bodies persevere in their state of rest or of uniform movement, unless imprinted forces compel them to change”. This law does not define the effect of gravitation.

Law 2: “The change of movement is proportional to the imprinted motive force, and is affected along the line in which this force is imprinted”. The imprinted force is the weight, therefore proportional to the mass of each body, which does not correspond to the gravitation which imprints the fall of the grave in equal times.

Law 3: “The reaction is always contrary and equal to the action”. Newton refers to other actions than gravitation, such as pressure or pull or shock on another body, and a horse pulling a stone attached, forgetting the case where the galloping horse, drives the stone, in which case the action of the horse is not equal to the reaction of the stone. These examples are all alien to the action of gravitation, of which the only law, recalled by Newton, is expressed in Proposition VI.

This puts into question the reciprocal attraction between two orbital stars F = F ‘= G

 M M ´´

D² ,  where F and F ´´ express the mutual force of attraction, M and M ´´ the masses of the bodies, D their distance, and G a constant. It is this reciprocity that has determined the calculation of the masses of the sun and the planets. In February 2014, the Royal Society brought together the main specialists measuring the G constant, on the theme: “The Newtonian constant of gravitation, a constant too difficult to measure”, whose differences ranging from 6,672 to 6,676. Is the constant, constant or not?

Let us add that at present, we know the effect of gravitation, but not the cause.

I therefore concluded an experimental gravitation contract with the Royal Observatory of Belgium, directed by Professor Michel van Ruymbeke [1] .

The experiment consists in subjecting a vertical pendulum to the attraction of masses of the same volume, copper, aluminum, Plexiglas, nonmagnetic, and magnetic iron, mounted on a pulley. The result of the measurements shows that the attraction does not depend on the material used, magnetic or not, but only on the attractive mass. The second experiment will consist in checking the Earth’s screen effect on solar attraction, measured by a pendulum, exposed or not to this attraction, according to the terrestrial rotation.

The other question concerns the interferometric experiments of Michelson (in 1881), Michelson and Morley (1887) and Morley-Miller (1902–1905) which did not evidence the speed of the Earth of 30 km/s in the ether which was supposed to be immobile. These results plunged the physicists into an enormous embarrassment, and led Einstein to state the two postulates of his special relativity in 1905. Such a theory was by no means necessary. The failure of these experiments implied that of the immobile ether hypothesis. It had to be admitted that the speed of the ether on the earth’s surface was, according to the interferometric experiments carried out to date, either null according to most of them, or weak according to Miller, as had justified Maurice Allais. Let’s come to the Big Bang. This is based on the fact that the spectrum of light emitted by distant galaxies has a red shift. Based on the Doppler effect, which is the apparent frequency variation of the sound of a whistle of a train that crosses the observer (higher as it gets closer, lower when it moves away), and in applying it to light, it has been shown that galaxies recede. In 1928, Hubble will formulate his law v = Hr, where v is the speed of recession of the galaxy, r its distance, H a constant. Georges Lemaitre then made the thesis of a recess of galaxies from a single explosion, called the Big Bang. This is not demonstrated with facts. But we can, with facts, explain the phenomenon differently. The sun is yellow at the zenith, red-orange at bedtime. The color is a function of the path in the atmospheric air of the rays that are observed. The rays emitted by distant galaxies cross the gaseous atmosphere of many galaxies, resulting in a red shift.

Geology

Let us come to the other great discipline, whose a priori has had as many implications: Geology.

Its founder, Nicolas Stenon, who intended to “walk in a very exact and orderly way, according to the method of Descartes”, defines the foundations in 1667 in his book “Canis Calchariae”, interpreting the superposition of strata as a succession of sedimentary deposits [2], lacked of underwater observations. He deduced in 1669, in “Prodromus”, the principles of stratigraphy, namely, superposition, continuity and original horizontality of strata, which are at the base of the relative scale of geological time. Charles Lyell defines from it absolute chronologies. In 1828 he traversed the Auvergne, and became interested in laminated deposits of fresh water. Noticing foliated strata of less than a millimeter that he attributed to an annual deposit, he realized that the whole (230 meters), took hundreds of thousands of years to form. In his “Principles of Geology” (1832), he noted that the fauna was renewed by 5% during the “ice age”. Assuming a constant rate of renewal (uniformitarian hypothesis), it will take twenty times longer for a “revolution” in wildlife to occur. But Lyell has had four revolutions since the end of the secondary era, and eight more for earlier times since the beginning of the primary era. And as his contemporary James Croll estimated, for astronomical reasons, that the ice ages lasted a million years, Lyell sets the primary base at 240 million years. Duration increased to 560 million years ago by radiometric dating in the 20th century.

It was this succession of species during a very long time that led Darwin to express, in 1859, his theory in his work “The Origin of Species”. It is that of the natural selection of species by the struggle for life, inducing their evolution over time. Two years later, Marx wrote to Lassalle: “Very significant is the work of Darwin, which suits me as a foundation in the natural sciences of the class struggle in history”. Engels on his side, in “Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of German Philosophy” acknowledged “Darwin’s overall demonstration made for the first time that all the products of nature that now surround us, including men, are the product of a long process of development from a small number of unicellular germs originally, and that the latter are, in turn, from a protoplasm or albuminoid body made by chemical means”. And he immediately deduced from Darwin’s “discovery” a law of evolution of societies: “But what is true of nature and also recognized as a process of historical development, is also true of history of society in all its branches and all of the sciences that deal with human and divine things “.

Scientific socialism thus derives from Darwin, as does National Socialism, which preached the supremacy of the Aryan race. Hence the Gulag, and the Shoah, which have claimed more than 60 million lives. As for the historical geology, based on the interpretation of Stenon, this one is not proved, because no one has witnessed stratification.

That is why I started an experimental program to study stratification in 1970. There exists in the sedimentary rocks, layers of slight thickness, millimetric, or “laminae”, which are similar to the “foliated strata” observed by Lyell, mentioned earlier. I took a sample of “Fontainebleau sand”, presenting these “laminae”, weakly cemented. I broke the cement and obtained heterogranular sand, that is to say composed of particles of different sizes.

I dropped the sand into a glass tube, and saw the same lamination in the deposit similar to that of the sample, and this at whatever rate of sedimentation that I operated. As shown in the attached photos. I understood then that this phenomenon could result from sand being a powder whose mechanics is intermediate between that of liquids and solids. If, in a tube, three solid bodies are successively dropped, these bodies are arranged in the order of their succession. Whereas if three liquids of different densities, mercury, oil, water, are dropped, they will be superimposed in the order of decreasing densities, under the effect of gravity. Gravity could therefore be expected to cause repetitive granulation of the sand particles according to their size. Lamination is a mechanical phenomenon, not a chronological one. As a result, the thousands of “foliated strata” observed by Lyell do not correspond to hundreds of thousands of years (Figure1 and 2).

The report of my experiments was presented by Professor Georges Millot, Director of the Institute of Geology of Strasbourg, Dean of the University, member of the institute, then President of the Geological Society of France, at the Paris Academy of Sciences, which published it in its reports in 1986 [3]. Thereafter, the Professor admitted me to the Geological Society of France, as a sedimentologist. I then did the same experiment with a laminate sample containing fossils. The result was the same, and was also published by the Academy of Sciences in 1988, presented by Georges Millot [4].

Figure 1. Diatomite sample

Figure 2. Lamination resulting from dry run

What about thick stratification?

A report titled “Jewel Creek Flood” [5], published in the US, authored by American geologist Edwin Mac Kee, reported stratified deposits on the banks of “Bijou Creek” resulting from a flood of the river from the Rocky Mountains, due to snowmelt and increased by heavy rains. This phenomenon did not last more than 48 hours. Given the continuity of the flow, there was no question of supposing that a first stratum had become rock, before the second covered it, as the principle of superposition had affirmed. The strata were about 10 cm thick (see Figure 3a,b).

Figure 3. Sedimentary structures of the East Bijou stream flood in 1965
a) alternating strata of sand and muddy sand – b) stratification of deposits

To explain the phenomenon, it must be taken into account that the river in flood reached a velocity of 7 m/s in turbulent regime, and where, in each area of the river, the speed of the current varies alternately from the surface to the bottom. However, sedimentologists such as Hjulstrom and Lichstvan-Lebedev [6], have experimentally determined the critical rates of deposition of particles of different sizes. In a flood situation, the sediment transport capacity of the current is very high, and the speed variation in each area, when it becomes critical, causes the sedimentation of quantities of particles of different sizes, so that the gradation observed in calm water becomes thick “layers” of several centimeters. Similarly, in 2008, the Journal Sedimentology published an article on the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, which presents photos of the tsunami’s deposit in a few hours, showing strata of 20 cm superimposed.

It seemed to me necessary to study stratification in the laboratory. An experimental report from a group of American sedimentologists operating at the University of Colorado Hydraulic Laboratory, of a flowing canal, showed the presence of strata in the deposit. I therefore proposed to study the causes, and went there for this occasion. I signed a contract with the University, and it was the group’s assistant, Pierre Yves Julien, a young Canadian hydraulist and sedimentologist, who carried out the experiences of the contract. In a canal, the water mixed with sand, whose large particles are black and the small white, is pumped in a circulating circuit. The color contrast of the particles allows the observation of the stratification in the sedimentary deposit which develops both laterally, in the direction of the current, and vertically as it thickens. The deposit is laminated and stratified. A lateral section of the deposit shows a superposition of layers several centimeters thick, as shown in the photos below. The report of this experiment was published in 1993 in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of France [7] (Figure 4–6).

Figure 4. Formation of granulated layers

Figure 5. Transverse section of the deposit

Figure 6. Longitudinal view of the deposit

To develop a chronology resulting from sedimentation, it is necessary to refer, as cause, to the marine movements, ascending or descending, which deposit stratified sets called “sequences”.

The book “Base of Sédimentologie” of the Association of French Sedimentologists, says: “Sedimentology studies how are formed the solid envelopes of the Earth and planets, subject to the action of water, wind and gravity “. Stenon’s a priori are no longer the basis. In the early 2000s, the time came for me to apply the lessons learned from my experiences, complemented by other sources on the ground. Being 75 years old, there was no way I could participate. But I was lucky when I went to Moscow at that time to meet a young geologist and sedimentologist, Alexandre Lalomov, who took a great interest in my published works. Thanks to him, I was able to publish in 2002, under the title “Analysis of the main principles of stratigraphy on the basis of experimental data”, in “Lithology and mineral resources”, journal of the Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Geology of Russia, a report of our work conducted in the USA [8].

In 2004, the same magazine published my, “Sedimentological Interpretation of the Tonto Group”, explaining that the facies of a geological series are both superimposed and juxtaposed on the deposit area, which is due to the current Sediment supply [9]. My work was also published in China [10].

Alexander Lalomov determined, in several regions of Russia, the hydraulic and sedimentary genesis of rock formations in Crimea, the Urals and the Saint Petersburg region [11].The most decisive of his works was the determination of the sedimentation time of rock formations, such as the Cambrian-Ordovician sandstone formations of the Saint Petersburg region. Sedimentary mechanics assess the sediment transport capacity of currents from critical paleo current velocities, as a function of particle size. The quotient of the volume of the rock formation studied by this capacity, per unit of time and volume, indicates the corresponding sedimentation times. This method is applied by many sedimentologists, names of which I would quote HA Einstein. The time determined by this method, applied to the aforementioned Cambrian-Ordovician sandstones, represents 0.05% of the time of the geological scale. The report of this study was published in 2011 in “Lithology and Mineral Resources”, journal of the Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Geology of Russia [12].

The sedimentary chronology is no longer based on stratification. This is why the stratigraphic chronology is belied by the aforementioned experimentation. In addition, sedimentary rocks are not radiologically dated, only igneous rocks can be.

Golovkinskii (Kazan-1868), on rocks, and Walther (1894), on marine sediments, established that: “Only facies and facies areas juxtaposed on the surface, could be superimposed originally” [13]. As it was shown, in my 2002 publication, facies, both superimposed and juxtaposed, constitute a sequence resulting from a transgression or marine regression. A succession of sequences included between a transgression followed by a final regression is a “series”. The data of the sequential stratigraphy and the experiments mentioned above, show that a series corresponds to a period. Therefore, the sequence should be considered as the base reference of the relative chronology, instead of the stage.

Today, sedimentologists, based on the results of their underwater observations and their laboratory experiments, have established relationships between hydraulic conditions, depth and particle size. This makes it possible to determine the critical transport speeds below which a particle of a given size is sedimented. The St. Petersburg Hydraulic Institute has carried out at my request an experimental program of erosion of sedimentary rocks by strong currents (v <27 m / s) to complete these relations [14]. Others will have to follow. For information, all our publications and experiences are on my website www.sedimentology.fr. By clicking on “Video”, you can see my experiences.

As a result, the geological time scale must no longer be based on the superposition of strata. It must be based previously on the sedimentary genesis, involving on the one hand gravitation, for the formation of the lamination, and on the other hand the turbulent flow velocity, for the formation of superimposed and juxtaposed stratified facies, constituting the sequences. As for absolute time, the foliated strata that Lyell observed, and taken for annual deposits, are mainly laminae which, as I have shown experimentally, do not characterize any absolute time. The same is true of his 240 million-year chronology, based on the biological “revolutions” that Professor Gohau has described as an “unproven, uniformitarian hypothesis”. Professor Gohau in his book “A History of Geology” [15] said, “What measures the time, these are the times of sedimentation and not those of orogens and “biological revolutions”. I add that the radiometric dating of rocks is questionable. As evidence, the potassium / argon dating of rocks, resulting from volcanic eruptions of known historical date, sometimes indicate millions of years. This results from an excess of argon largely from the lava that gave rise to the rock [16]. Christian Marchal, of ONERA, polytechnician also, published in 1996 in the “Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History of Paris” (completed by an erratum published in “Geodiversitas” – 1997), a study entitled “A probable cause of the large displacements of the terrestrial poles “ [17], showing that the uplift of a large mountain range like the Himalayas modifies by several million the moments of inertia of the Earth, which is enough to move the position of stable equilibrium of the poles by tens of degrees. This study indicates that these pole displacements, combined with the rotation of the Earth, result in large transgressions and regressions of the oceans, their amplitude being much greater than the variations of the level of the oceans due to the melting of the glaciers consecutive to cyclical variations of orbital parameters of the Earth. This may explain, in addition to the paleo-hydraulic analysis data, the existence of diluvian conditions in the geological past, generated by the orogeny of mountain ranges, in addition to those attributed to the fall of meteorites. As it is said in the Eocene Bulletin, the North Pole, before the Himalayan orogeny, was at the mouth of the Siberian Yenisei River at 72 degrees north latitude. After the orogenesis, he was in a position close to what it is today, after a shift of 18 degrees. The direction of the transgressions and regressions following each of the 19 orogeneses occurring since the beginning of the Primary era, corresponds to the succession of the resulting sequence facies, such as sandstone, clay, limestone. An example is the Tonto Group in the Cambrian. It proceeds from the Cadomian orogeny, at the beginning of the Cambrian, and results from a transgression from the Pacific Ocean to New Mexico. Other directions may be determined by other orogeneses that occurred elsewhere on Earth.

Contemporary marine fauna varies with depth, latitude and longitude, and such diversification exists in the geological timescale. The apparent change of fossilized marine organisms from one series to another following an orogenesis may result from different faunas transported by currents from different places resulting from successive orogenesis. What has been attributed to a biological change may be ecological in nature, explained by fauna from different orogeneses, taking into account the short time of sedimentation. It should be added that dating by radiocarbon (C14) is done nowadays on the collagen of fossil dinosaur bones, which reduces their calculated age from 65 million years to less than 40,000 years. But this C14 dating is based on the assumption that the C14 concentration of the atmosphere remained constant over time, which cannot be verified. Overall, the radiometric dates are not conclusive. In conclusion of the geological chapter, a relation can be established between cause and effect. Orogeny, that is, rising mountains, which is contingent on volcanic eruptions [18], is the cause of displacements of the axis of rotation of the poles, which causes marine series and creates deposits, thus sedimentary rocks. The duration of these deposits being much shorter than the time indicated by the geological timescale leads to its necessary revision. I expressed this causal relationship in “Towards a refoundation of historical geology” [19], published in “Georesources”, Journal of the Kazan University (12/2012), and in “Orogenesis, cause of sedimentary formations” [20], published in “Open Journal of Geology” at the International Conference of Geology and Geophysics held in Beijing (06/2013) [21].  I presented it at the Kazan Geology Conference in October 2014.

In his report, “Orogenesis of the Tertiary Age of the Ural Mountain System”, Alexandre Lalomov draws the following conclusions:

Based on the geomorphology and velocities generated by current surface movements, the time required for the uplift of the Ural Mountain system is much less (0.5 to 0.7%) than the corresponding time interval of the stratigraphic timescale.

Based on the sediment lithology and the geomorphology of the Ural valleys, the time required for the erosion of the valleys of most Ural rivers is much less (0.02 to 0.7%) than the corresponding time interval of the stratigraphic timescale.

The distribution of fossils in the Ural Orogeny deposits can be explained on the basis of ecological and facial zonings of the preogenic environment.

The report of “Reconstruction of Paleohydraulic conditions of deposition of the upper permian strata of the Kazan region” of A. Lalomov, G. Berthault, VG Izotov, LM Sitdikova, MA Tugarova was published in “Georesources” in 2017[22] and presented by Lalomov and myself on November 7, 2017 at the Kazan Geology Institute.

Conclusion

The fatal consequences of the a priori in natural sciences invites to base these on the observed and experienced facts, eliminating the a priori and errors of reasoning, which should be the subject of research by specialists of artificial intelligence. The history of the last centuries shows us well this sequence. Copernicus and Galileo affirmed, but without proof, that the sun was the center of the world. Had they merely spoken hypothetically, what Cardinal Bellarmin had asked Galileo to do, they would not have been condemned by the Holy Office, which, therefore, would not have denied the probable mobility of the Earth. There would have been no reaction against the Church. Similarly Descartes, if he had attached himself to the facts, he would not have based his judgments on the only clear and distinct ideas, persuasive ideas that led Stenon to his a priori, and Newton to his inexact laws set before the empirical evidence. Descartes thus engendered the philosophy of enlightenment, which, led the notoriously antireligious Voltaire to the revolution of 1789 and the fall of the monarchy of the Bourbons, replaced by Napoleon I and later Napoleon III, who unleashed wars. Objectively, these events should not have taken place. And without a historical geology based on an inexact a priori, Darwin would not have been led to write “The origin of species”, postulating this struggle for life between species which inspired Marx and Engels to advocate for the class struggle. So Stalin might have remained a seminarian and Hitler, a painter, which would have saved us the Second World War. Their a priori having been revealed, the previous incidences collapse. We cannot change history. But by becoming once again objective, we should be able to make history return to the path of Truth, from a scientific, political, metaphysical, moral and spiritual point of view. Man, having no proof of an evolutionary cause of the universe, must, as did ancient civilizations, ask himself the question : “Who created the universe?”. For believers, there is a spiritual response expressed by the Bible whose chronology has been challenged by the millions of years attributed to living species, including Man. Having challenged the foundations and chronology of historical geology, believers, freed from this geological challenge, can once again adhere to the credibility of the Bible, be it Jews, Christians or Muslims.

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