. . . Off shore from Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, below the Atlantic Ocean waves and currents, there are curious features at 30 degrees North Latitude / 76 degrees West Longitude and there-abouts – This point is often referred to as “Blake’s Spur” . . . . . .
_ - This presumes that Google Earth’s representation of the Atlantic Ocean Basin contours has some level of accuracy without excessive editing and air brushing the consumer app content – And, there does not seem to be any reason to doubt Google Earth's overall shaping or depth sensing giving rise to its graphics – Features, at depth, appear quite striking to a marine-biologist wan-na-bee, such as myself. Might these underwater features have some major global implications that could affect or even contribute to other study’s presently under way and / or even theorized? . . .They’re likely to have some data details yet to reveal to the trained eyes of many sub science disciplines, too. . . . Also, probably more so, these step like features underwater have been bugging me for years, ever since Google Earth became a free online app and I came across them while using the app – Many thanks to Google Earth’s inventor, too, by the way, for this very useful study tool. I can live with limited editing and air brushing of some details. . . . “Olympus Mons,” and three other close by Mons’ for a total of four Martian volcanoes have bugged me for years, too. It’s their geometric surface positions and planetary grid alignments that are eye catching, . . . but they’re a planet away.
. . . At any rate, back on Earth and offshore at Blake’s Spur, there appears to be several progressive steps, around five maybe six in all, of massive proportions, starting at depths of 16,000 feet, if that is what that estimated minus elevation means on the bottom of the map screen. They look as if leading upward out of the water or downward into the ocean depths, depending on one’s stepping direction. ‘Can’t miss them when one zooms in a bit at that location. They seem to twist around what seems to be a below depths, rounded, and centric earthen spire or Blake’s Spur. Like round a centralized pole one would observe with a spiral staircase in a well built house.
I call them gyre steps by any other name as they seem to have been formed, somehow, by long term gyrating ocean currents or gyres - As if they were carved by the Atlantic Ocean’s underwater currents. Rock carving by water isn’t anything new to geologists, but those underwater earthen forms are a little harder to study. One part of those current flows, often referred to as The Gulf Stream, seems to have played an important part in their formation, possibly, being intermittent or even associated with very large and sudden water rises to say little about changing water volumes of the ocean basin. Manipulated water volumes of ice, water, and evaporated water vapor are very powerful forces in nature as much as they’re life sustaining locally. I suppose the ocean floor could also have deepened, too, as much as ocean water rose as that ocean floor is still being made as it seems to be moving away from the Mid Atlantic Ridge area. That rift area is still very seismically active.
Somehow, demonstrating through experimentation - one of the pillars of the scientific method - how this formation might occur does not seem likely as one lacks the means and ways of draining the ocean basin to given depths and refilling them under laboratory conditions under several plausible scenarios. No surprises there, anyway. I suspect the scientific community, as a whole, also lacks this capacity, but there are other means of measuring that might yield a clue or two. Past events might have carved the ocean basin before present populations began homesteading along the coastal shorelines. It leaves the realm of hypothesizing wide open, in any case.
Several questions to ponder for the adventurous explorer (and, probably, well equipped and funded folk, too):
What are the compositions of each of those step-like formations? (one or two core samples might show something, but are not likely to be nearly enough, though they would be a beginning)
Is there anything that core sampling might reveal that is not already known about that area ocean floor sedimentation the deeper one goes?
Have the oceans waters become highly silted from catastrophic events before from land based regions, then clearing and settling out multiple times as the ocean floor continued spreading?
Has the present Gulf Stream been disrupted before with some of the proof there, on and inside those stepped formations?
Is or are any one of these “steps” associated with any hypothesized global catastrophic event(s); Or, how about climatic shifts; Or, even crustal shifts?
Are there similar past gyre workings offshore from Antarctica’s Peninsula region at roughly the same depths of 16,000 – 15,000 – 13,000 – 8,000thru10,000 – 2,000 feet each down to present brown water depths of less than 500 ft? I’ve used rounded figures. Google shows something of these proximities, but those off of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas show much more detail. There other areas, too, less defined than these two.
If ice core sampling has revealed a distant global past, what about methodical ocean floor core sampling in that stepped region and beyond?
I have my suspicions about several things, but in the last analysis, suspicion is not evidence. It certainly raises some questions about observable phenomena, though. In my case, the way these gyre steps have been bugging me – Yes, . . Yes, . . I know . . . Strange fetish this one has, exploring ocean depths remotely. Heh! Heh! Thanks for reading.
_ - This presumes that Google Earth’s representation of the Atlantic Ocean Basin contours has some level of accuracy without excessive editing and air brushing the consumer app content – And, there does not seem to be any reason to doubt Google Earth's overall shaping or depth sensing giving rise to its graphics – Features, at depth, appear quite striking to a marine-biologist wan-na-bee, such as myself. Might these underwater features have some major global implications that could affect or even contribute to other study’s presently under way and / or even theorized? . . .They’re likely to have some data details yet to reveal to the trained eyes of many sub science disciplines, too. . . . Also, probably more so, these step like features underwater have been bugging me for years, ever since Google Earth became a free online app and I came across them while using the app – Many thanks to Google Earth’s inventor, too, by the way, for this very useful study tool. I can live with limited editing and air brushing of some details. . . . “Olympus Mons,” and three other close by Mons’ for a total of four Martian volcanoes have bugged me for years, too. It’s their geometric surface positions and planetary grid alignments that are eye catching, . . . but they’re a planet away.
. . . At any rate, back on Earth and offshore at Blake’s Spur, there appears to be several progressive steps, around five maybe six in all, of massive proportions, starting at depths of 16,000 feet, if that is what that estimated minus elevation means on the bottom of the map screen. They look as if leading upward out of the water or downward into the ocean depths, depending on one’s stepping direction. ‘Can’t miss them when one zooms in a bit at that location. They seem to twist around what seems to be a below depths, rounded, and centric earthen spire or Blake’s Spur. Like round a centralized pole one would observe with a spiral staircase in a well built house.
I call them gyre steps by any other name as they seem to have been formed, somehow, by long term gyrating ocean currents or gyres - As if they were carved by the Atlantic Ocean’s underwater currents. Rock carving by water isn’t anything new to geologists, but those underwater earthen forms are a little harder to study. One part of those current flows, often referred to as The Gulf Stream, seems to have played an important part in their formation, possibly, being intermittent or even associated with very large and sudden water rises to say little about changing water volumes of the ocean basin. Manipulated water volumes of ice, water, and evaporated water vapor are very powerful forces in nature as much as they’re life sustaining locally. I suppose the ocean floor could also have deepened, too, as much as ocean water rose as that ocean floor is still being made as it seems to be moving away from the Mid Atlantic Ridge area. That rift area is still very seismically active.
Somehow, demonstrating through experimentation - one of the pillars of the scientific method - how this formation might occur does not seem likely as one lacks the means and ways of draining the ocean basin to given depths and refilling them under laboratory conditions under several plausible scenarios. No surprises there, anyway. I suspect the scientific community, as a whole, also lacks this capacity, but there are other means of measuring that might yield a clue or two. Past events might have carved the ocean basin before present populations began homesteading along the coastal shorelines. It leaves the realm of hypothesizing wide open, in any case.
Several questions to ponder for the adventurous explorer (and, probably, well equipped and funded folk, too):
What are the compositions of each of those step-like formations? (one or two core samples might show something, but are not likely to be nearly enough, though they would be a beginning)
Is there anything that core sampling might reveal that is not already known about that area ocean floor sedimentation the deeper one goes?
Have the oceans waters become highly silted from catastrophic events before from land based regions, then clearing and settling out multiple times as the ocean floor continued spreading?
Has the present Gulf Stream been disrupted before with some of the proof there, on and inside those stepped formations?
Is or are any one of these “steps” associated with any hypothesized global catastrophic event(s); Or, how about climatic shifts; Or, even crustal shifts?
Are there similar past gyre workings offshore from Antarctica’s Peninsula region at roughly the same depths of 16,000 – 15,000 – 13,000 – 8,000thru10,000 – 2,000 feet each down to present brown water depths of less than 500 ft? I’ve used rounded figures. Google shows something of these proximities, but those off of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas show much more detail. There other areas, too, less defined than these two.
If ice core sampling has revealed a distant global past, what about methodical ocean floor core sampling in that stepped region and beyond?
I have my suspicions about several things, but in the last analysis, suspicion is not evidence. It certainly raises some questions about observable phenomena, though. In my case, the way these gyre steps have been bugging me – Yes, . . Yes, . . I know . . . Strange fetish this one has, exploring ocean depths remotely. Heh! Heh! Thanks for reading.