Italy And Europe Made Really Simple

How about something absolutely amazing that I have never seen pointed out? Wait until you get to the end of this posting.

Italy is like an exhibit of my geology theory revolving around Continental Asteroids and lines of magma emergence.

The moon is unlikely to have formed along with the earth because the moon is made of rock but lacks the heavy iron core that the earth has. This is why the earth is 64 times the volume of the moon but has 81 times it's mass, and why the moon has practically no magnetic field. 

It is widely believed that an object about the size of Mars, collided with earth and the fragments coalesced by gravity to form the moon. The first landing of astronauts on the moon missed the intended landing site by several km because of unexpected variations in the moon's surface gravity from place to place. This indeed makes it seem that the moon is an assembly of different fragments.

This is not a new idea. My geology theory takes it further to explain the continents, and that there were actually three Continental Asteroids that impacted earth, although it was likely the same object that broke into three pieces while in earth orbit.

The spin of the earth causes magma, hot molten rock, to emerge from below along the equator. The rules of fluid dynamics are that this equatorial emergence must be balanced by perpendicular longitudinal lines of emergence. The added mass of each Continental Asteroid upsets the balance of the earth's rotation. The earth shifts each time so that the center of the new mass is at one of the poles. This caused the pattern of magma emergence to shift also, although emergence continues along the old lines for a long time. 

I got this idea from Mars, the southern hemisphere is higher, and thus heavier, than the northern hemisphere but it doesn't unbalance the planet's rotation because one pole is centered on the lighter hemisphere and one pole on the heavier hemisphere.

This leaves no major feature of the earth's surface, either on land or the seafloor, unexplained. Magma emergence forms ridges on the seafloor but spreads the land apart if under a continental land mass. As a general rule tectonic collisions take place only between continental land masses from different Continental Asteroids. 

There is an abbreviated version of the geology theory from where this comes at "Geology Theory With Satellite Imagery And Maps", March 2024. The full text of the theory is "Updated Geology Theory", April 2024.

ALL IMAGES ARE FROM GOOGLE EARTH

Markup, usually red, is used to illustrate the features being referred to. Each paragraph describes the following image.

There is today a long line of high and mountainous terrain through Greece, Turkey, Iran, and across central Asia. These extensive mountains are not volcanic and are difficult to explain. My geology theory explains them as the remnants of the third of three Continental Asteroids.

This is the western end of this line of mountains, through Greece, Turkey and, Iran.

 

Another thing about this long line of mountains is that it separates two major bodies of water from the rest of the world's seas. The Black Sea is almost completely cut off from the rest of the world's seas. We know it was once part of the world's seas because it is salt water.

The Caspian Sea is a major body of salt water that is completely cut off from the rest of the world's seas, of which it must have once been a part. This shows that the world's seas, which came to earth by comets, were already there and then this long line of mountains was added afterward.
 

This long line of extensive mountains must have once extended further west. What happened is that a comet struck the western end of it and shattered it. The impact tore part of the line of mountains that remained away from the rest. 

In the following image doesn't it look like Greece, to the left, was "torn away" from Turkey, to the right? The gap thus formed is the Aegean Sea, indicated by the red dot. The many Aegean Islands, which are not volcanic, are the "crumbs" that were left behind.

The long line of mountains across Asia actually does continue to the west of Greece but it is diverted at an angle to the northwest. The red line in the following image indicates the mountains across Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The pieces of the shattered western end of this line of mountains drifted tectonically northward. The largest pieces had the most momentum and generally ended up furthest north. This is where the otherwise very difficult to explain Scandinavian Mountains came from.

It is also where the high mountains of northern Scotland came from. The primary line of magma emergence is along the equator, caused by the spin of the earth. But this has to be balanced, according to the rules of fluid dynamics, by longitudinal lines of magma emergence. The best known of these today is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. 

Britain is basically a jumble of shattered pieces that got caught on one of these longitudinal lines of magma emergence. The straight line across northern Scotland, known as Glen Mor, was caused by the collision with this line of magma emergence.

Various smaller pieces of the line of mountains that was shattered by the comet make up the backbone of western Europe. Relative movement of these pieces forced the seafloor between them upward, making it into dry land.

 

We can see how Britain is really a jumble of fragments that got caught on a longitudinal line of magma emergence by how the Pennine Mountains form a north-south line with the Contentin Peninsula of Normandy. This is on the longitudinal line of emergence in the same way as Sardinia and Corsica in the Mediterranean. The Cambrian (Welsh) Mountains were once part of this line but were pushed westward by the tectonic collision of Italy, pushed by Africa, with Europe. This is the same tectonic collision that formed the Alps.

The impact of this comet not only shattered the line of mountains that originally extended further westward from Greece and Turkey, it also forced a lot of magma to emerge from below. A major reason for all of these magma lines of emergence in this theory is the added weight of the continents from the three Continental Asteroids. The comet came in from the northwest and struck at what is now the Tyrrhenian Sea.

The reason I claim it to have been a comet, rather than an asteroid, is that comets are made mostly of ice. The comet would have thus added water to the world's oceans, but wouldn't leave much in the way of traces. 

How else could Italy have possibly formed? A tight loop of volcanic land like this, that is not on a tectonic plate boundary is seen nowhere else in the world. In the following image the red dot is the approximate impact site of the comet and the red line is the resulting magma emergence that formed Italy. We associate magma emergence with volcanoes but if the emergence is smooth and even there will be no volcano. A volcano forms when the emergence is forced or when it is hindered so that it breaks through at one point.

Another interesting thing is that continental land masses tend to move tectonically, driven by the spin of the earth, but volcanic land masses don't. The reason is that land formed from magma that was within the earth already has the same momentum as the earth but continental land masses, introduced from outside by the Continental Asteroids, don't. 

This shows that the Continental Asteroids came from outside and a new equilibrium has not yet been reached. But Italy, although of volcanic origin, does move tectonically. It's tectonic collision with Europe formed the Alps. Italy moves tectonically because it's magma emergence was forced from outside, by the impact of the comet.

The southeastern peninsula of Italy, Apulia or Puglia, was created by the tectonic collision, rather than by magma emergence. Like the caboose of a slowing train the seafloor was forced upward by Italy moving tectonically and then colliding with Europe, which also formed the Alps. This peninsula is geologically related to Florida, which was similarly formed by the Appalachian collision. This Italian peninsula doesn't have sinkhole lakes like Florida because it is dry.

 

What is really interesting about this idea of a comet impact in what is now the Tyrrhenian Sea, coming in from the northwest, is that if we continue in a straight line from there it brings us to a wide area of northwestern Egypt that is actually well below sea level. This area is called the Qattara Depression and requires some special explanation and this theory makes it simple. The comet could have broken in half before colliding with the earth. Remember that comet Shoemaker-Levy broke apart before colliding with Jupiter in 1994. The second half impacted creating this low lying depression in northern Egypt.

There are three deep, and nearly circular, lakes north of Rome. They are known to be volcanic in nature and I don't think there is anything just like this anywhere else. But what happened is simple. Magma, hot molten rock, emerges from below, driven by the spin of the earth and the added weight of the continents. Sometimes magma emergence is hindered, until it breaks through at one point as a volcano. But what happened here is that magma was forced upward by the sudden impact of the comet. This caused "bubbles" of water to be trapped within the magma and this is what formed these lakes.
 
 

In my geology theory there were three successive Continental Asteroids, millions of years apart, that crashed into the earth. This formed the continents and the debris that was hurtled back into space formed the moon. Of course it could have been one large object that broke apart in earth orbit. The added mass of each of the three impacts unbalanced the earth's rotation. This caused the earth to shift on it's axis each time so that the center of the added mass was at one of the poles. The pattern of magma emergence, from the equator caused by the spin of the earth and the balancing longitudinal lines of emergence, also had to shift each time. But change comes very slowly and emergence continues along the old lines for a very long time after the shift.

The Po Valley across northern Italy is a former equator and the axis of the Adriatic Sea, which intersects it at a right angle, is a former longitudinal line of emergence. Some magma emergence continues, spreading the land apart, and this is why Venice, which is right at the intersection, is sinking.

Something that caught my attention years ago is that two elongated seas, the Adriatic Sea and the Red Sea, are far apart but, allowing for the curvature of the earth, actually form a straight line. This is because this line was a prominent longitudinal line of magma emergence in the previous polar era, somewhat like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is today. Continued emergence along the former equator formed the Po Valley and the south pole was at what is now the Mascarene Ridge structure around Madagascar.

After the Third Continental Asteroid landed, which resulted in the long and extensive line of otherwise difficult to explain mountains across Greece, Turkey and, Iran into central Asia, the earth had to shift again on it's axis to regain rotational balance. This caused the pattern of equator and longitudinal lines of magma emergence to shift again, although emergence would continue along the old lines for a long time. The equator, which had been where the Po Valley is now, slipped toward becoming the present equator.

We can see this in one line across the Italian Peninsula where Naples Bay, created when magma emergence spread the land apart and around where there is a lot of volcanic activity, is directly across the peninsula from the Gargano Peninsula, on the Adriatic side. This peninsula is not part of the magma emergence that formed most of Italy but is a fragment of the shattered line of mountains that got caught on the emergence line of the temporary equator.

As the equator shifted toward becoming the present equator we see evidence of it again. How else can the northeastern coast of Sicily and the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Taranto form a perfectly straight line, that is parallel to the above line?

 

The south coast of Sicily forms a straight line with the southernmost point of Sardinia. The alignment of the two islands of Malta also conforms to this line. That is because this is a longitudinal line of magma emergence from the previous polar era that also forms the broad valley across northern Spain that hosts the city of Zaragoza.

 

Then we have the perfect north south line formed by Sardinia and Corsica. This is fragments of the shattered line of mountains caught on a longitudinal line of emergence from the present polar era, in a way similar to Britain. This line of emergence continues northward to form the harbor around which Genoa is built, as indicated by the red dot.
 

Italy is really associated with leaning towers. The most famous is, of course, the Leaning Tower of Pisa. 

Not only that but the Garisendi Tower in Bologna leans. This is where two rival medieval families competed to see who could build the tallest tower. The other tower is also leaning, although not as much. The medieval bell tower in Venice actually collapsed, in 1902. What is interesting is that Venice, Bologna and, Pisa form a straight line, and that straight line is at an angle midway between the former equator that is now the Po Valley, across northern Italy, and the axis of the Adriatic Sea, which was a longitudinal line of emergence in the same era.

If some magma emergence was still going on here this midway line is in the position to get the maximum thrust. The resulting spreading of the land apart certainly explains why Venice is sinking. Could the gradually changing thrust be what is causing towers built centuries ago to lean?

The next question is whether anything like this comet impact scenario could have occurred anywhere else in the world. Japan is on a plate boundary and is volcanic in origin, but why did so much magma emergence in one place like this? Where did Korea come from? It's extensive mountains are not volcanic. Yet this is very similar to the situation on the other side of the world, and could be explained by a comet impact in what is now the Sea of Japan. The Sea of Japan is congruent to the Tyrrhenian Sea. Japan is congruent to Italy. Korea is congruent to Greece. The Yellow Sea is congruent to the Aegean Sea.

 

How does a country end up with all of these lines in it's physical geography? The green line, between the two green dots, is a longitudinal line of emergence from the present polar era, with Sardinia and Corsica as fragments of the shattered line of mountains caught on it. 

The red line is a longitudinal line from the previous polar era that defines the south coast of Sicily, the southernmost point of Sardinia, the alignment of the two islands of Malta and forms the broad valley in Spain that hosts the city of Zaragoza. The purple line is the three major volcanoes of Italy, Etna, Stromboli and, Vesuvius, that form a north south longitudinal line in the present polar era. The blue dot is the broad Po Valley, which is the former equator. The yellow line and the white line is traces of that equator as it shifted to become the present equator. The yellow dot is the Adriatic Sea, which is a prominent longitudinal line of emergence from the previous polar era. The intersection where it meets the Po Valley is where the combination of the two is causing the land to spread apart and is why Venice is sinking.

The lines from the previous polar era were there when the comet struck and constrained the magma emergence caused by that, and this explains the physical geography of Italy today.

Now, here is what is so amazing for anyone who has read the Bible. The Book of Daniel, Chapter 2, foretells the end of the great successive empires of the earth and the future establishment of the Kingdom of God. There is a statue with a head of gold but successively inferior metals as we get lower.

The head of gold is explained to represent Babylon. Below that comes Persia, then Greece, and then Rome. Each empire conquers, and then supplants, the one before it. The iron legs of the statue are widely considered to represent the Roman Empire. Elsewhere in the Book of Daniel the "fourth empire" is a "beast made of iron" that "stamps the residue with it's feet". This has also long been considered to represent the Roman Empire.

The Book of Daniel was written long before Rome became a great power and the way it turned out, considering that Rome is represented by iron legs and feet is that the Italian Peninsula is famously shaped like a boot.

The statue in the Book of Daniel, culminating in the Roman Empire, is utterly destroyed by a stone that falls to earth from above. What do you notice here? According to my geological explanation Italy and Europe, which is to be the center of the Antichrist's kingdom in the Last Days, was formed by a comet falling from above in exactly the same way that the culminating unholy kingdom will be destroyed by a stone falling from above.

The writer of the Book of Daniel couldn't possibly have known how Italy and Europe formed, or even that this is where the culminating unholy kingdom would be based, but God knew.

In the compound posting "New Insight Into Bible Prophecy", October 2016, in the section 6) THE IRON AND THE CLAY IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL, we saw that the history of Europe has been the interplay between the heritage of the Roman Empire and that of the Holy Roman Empire. The two have had a kind of "frenemy" relationship, but with neither able to lastingly dominate the other. 

This prophecy in the Book of Daniel describes the feet of the statue, which would be the heir of the Roman Empire, as a mixture of iron and clay. These two do not mix very well but are not completely separate. This perfectly describes the relationship between the heritage of the Roman and Holy Roman Empires. The Kingdom of the Antichrist will represent the two empires finally getting together, before being destroyed and replaced by the Kingdom of Jesus.

The prophecy is that the chaff produced by the impact would be blown away and the impacting stone would grow into a great mountain. The geology of it is that the fragments of "chaff" formed the foundation of Europe and the impact caused the magma to emerge that formed the rock of the Italian Peninsula. This is really a boost for Catholics as the name of St. Peter means "rock".

The Book of Daniel was written before either the Greek or Roman Empires. Why would God choose a statue with a stone landing on it's feet, to destroy it, to represent the successive empires, the last of which will be Rome?

Could it be because of physical geography, that the Italian Peninsula is shaped like a boot with Sicily like a stone about to land on it?