[doc1019]

Or a really big flood.

[ForGod'sSake]

Yep. Or perchance a REALLY big wave.

[SAR]

Amen

[stormer]

Could be a really big flood. Really big floods occur around the world with regularity, and Hidalgo is certainly a place where hurricanes (and ensuing really big floods) have caused significant damage and deaths in the past. Of course we know this isn’t evidence of Noah’s flood; since he gathered two of every animal, we’d still have mammoths, mastodons, and armadillos the size of cars still wandering around.

[MHGinTN]

The planet is like a spinning top in some respects. If the spin poles shifted 90 degrees, the tropics would suddenly be in the Northernmost regions, etc. The plates would have been violently shaken and perhaps rippled like shaking a rug to loosen the dirt, but is a much more chaotic pattern since the plates are of different shapes and have boundaries with more than one other plate.

Question then becomes 'what could cause the top to tip so?' Would a passing massive body generate sufficient gravitational disturbance? nad might there have been accompanying 'electrical discharge exchanges' when this body passed close enough to the Earth in rushing through the solar system, and might there be other clues on other planets, like a huge gouge across the surface of perhaps Mars and perhaps the demiose of an entire watery planet in the Martian orbit with Mars a surviving moon of the other water world? ... Oh my, when we need Tom Van Flandern ...