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The hydroplate theory says that an unbroken, 10-mile-thick layer of granite crust completely covered the sphere of earth. Approximately half the earth's water was trapped beneath this crust and contained around twice the minerals that current sea water does. Beneath this underground water was a basaltic layer. The thicker portions of the granite came to rest on this basalt, forming a stable but flexible architecture. The pressure in the subterranean chamber could not escape because rock deforms like putty at 5 miles depth or so, and therefore cannot crack.
But as pressure continued to build, perhaps from lunar tides, the chamber expanded and caused a top-down rupture that encircled the globe in about 2 hours along what now forms our mid-oceanic ridges. The underground water then escaped at supersonic velocities. The eruption eroded an average 400 miles of granite crust from each side of the rupture as well as much of the thickness from beneath as the water rushed laterally. The uplifted water, minerals, and crust froze fast in the near-absolute-zero temperature of space. Some sediments and ice rained back down and the rest formed what we know as comets (mostly water) and asteroids (mostly rock). Solar radiation is responsible for regulating the orbit of asteroids.
The lower basaltic crust was then disproportionately burdened by the now fractured granite crust. The absence of a top layer of granite caused the basalt to rise at the eroded chasm, and the weight of the remaining granite fragments caused the basalt to sink under the new continents. The basalt was now stressed beyond its tensile strength at the chasm in two dimensions. The upward arching of the basalt formed major axial rifting parallel to the rupture, now known as the mid-oceanic ridges. Minor, perpendicular rifting was subsequently caused along these ridges by the curvature of the earth.
The fractured granite crust was no longer stretched taught over the whole globe. Each fragment began to shrivel at the edges, forming mountain ranges, much like a balloon being popped in slow motion. As granite continents retracted, their weight became more concentrated on the underlying basaltic crust, hence the continents pushed further down into the basalt, which pushed up the mid-oceanic ridges even more and retracted the continents even further, etc.
This runaway cycle continued, at least partially lubricated by the fast-depleting subterranean water, and the continents were thickened by their own weight and buckled, causing oceanic trenches in the Pacific. As the remaining water underneath the granite was purged, parts of the drifting continental crust came into contact with the underlying basalt. The friction was enough to melt large portions of both crusts, creating magma containing basalt, granite, and concentrated seawater, creating today's volcanoes and magma chambers, most of which are also in or near the Pacific.
As the erupting waters slowed, a flood rose above the relatively smooth surface of the planet, also covering the remaining jets of subterranean water. The water was very muddy, and these sediments were transported and deposited over the surface of the globe by the unimpeded tsunamis that would have encircled the sphere multiple times. The sediment was deposited in layers, forming our geological record of strata. Liquefaction, the process by which heavy objects sink into suddenly unsolidified sediments, is responsible for the sorting of the sediments by size and granularity. The gigantic waves compressed and decompressed the muddy water beneath them, which forced the water to move up and down repeatedly through the sediment.
The same thing happens when you shake a bag of chips. The small chips travel to the bottom while the large ones float to the top. And the same thing happens when earthquakes cause the ground to swallow buildings. In both of these examples, air is the medium that flows between these shaken objects and gradually sorts them. In the case of the flood, liquefaction more resembled quicksand than earthquakes. Water pressure suspended the sediments so that particles could move past each other, and the up-and-down tidal compression gradually sorted them by their shape and size.
Next, we have water lenses. Water lensing is the term Brown uses for the bottle-necking that occurs when water flows from one type of sediment to another. If one sediment is made up of rounded particles, water will move easily through it. But if there exists a layer of less-rounded particles above the rounded particles, water will take longer to squeeze between them. This will create an expanse of water between layers, where hapless humans and animals who managed to get caught in the flood would no doubt end up. If we looked at these (virtually pure) layers of sediment as deposited over eons of time, these organic remains sandwiched between changes in sedimentation would appear as occasional catastrophic extinctions.
As the continents contracted, buckled, and thickened, about 10 percent of their total mass rose above the new sea level. As the flood waters drained off the continents, there were large lakes left behind, such as the Great Lakes, the Caspian Sea, the Kashmir Basin, and countless others. Two particular large lakes were left in North America in the southeast corner of Utah, and northeast corner of Arizona that eventually breached the boundary between them and together spilled westward, carving the Grand Canyon a few thousand years ago, and leaving behind Monument Valley and the Petrified Forest National Park.
The millennia following the flood have seen a gradual return of the surface of the earth into a more spherical shape through earthquakes which are shifts in mass either by faulting or settling. Also, today's geothermal heat both oceanic and atmospheric are largely a result of the escaping subterranean water and its effect on the crusts. The preflood atmosphere did not retain so much heat because it was decidedly thinner, allowing for hotter days and cooler nights. The melting ice caps and the rising sea level are also fading remnants of these fountains of the great deep.
This is surely enough to start a good discussion. Plus it's already a lengthy post, so I'll stop here and allow for input. There's more evidence to put forth, of course. This is just a primer for the discussion, which I eagerly look forward to. Thanks for your time.
Explanations for above photos
Magnetic Reversals
Glenn Morton's rebuttal
Sediment diversity
Sediment deposition
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; Strange Claims, same as the expanding Earth mumbo-jumbo from Neal Adams. Gimme a break.
