caused earthquakes and volcanoes

English translation: caused ... volcanic eruptions

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English term or phrase:	caused ... volcanoes
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Entered by:	Ana Juliá

14:44 Feb 24, 2009

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Art/Literary - Religion / Creation vs. Evolution

English term or phrase: caused earthquakes and volcanoes

Consider for a moment the unthinkable! Suppose that the Bible were true in its account of a world-wide flood. In my travels, each time I go across the Pacific, I am always amazed as to its size and depth. Scientists refer to the ‘ring of fire’ of volcanoes and earthquake zones running down the west coast of the USA, the Andes of South America, the islands of Indonesia and up through south east Asia, Japan and north east Russia. This has led some Creation/Flood scientists to propose that the Flood was due to an impact with a large asteroid which catastrophically broke the Earth’s mantle (possibly in the Pacific which would explain its great depth), tilted the Earth off a ‘vertical’ spin axis and ***caused earthquakes and volcanoes*** of cataclysmic proportions. Not only did water fall from above, but water originally beneath the earth was released with tidal waves of immense depths sweeping across the globe.

Does "volcanoes" here mean that there appeared volcanos, or that there were volcanic eruptions?

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volcanic eruptions

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That's what it means here.

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volcanic eruptions

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earthquakes and the formation of volcanoes/volcanic erruptions

Christopher Crockett

There may have already have been volcanoes and earthquakes

Gary D

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volcanic eruptions

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That's what it means here.

d_vachliot (X)
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earthquakes and the formation of volcanoes/volcanic erruptions

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Note added at 7 mins (2009-02-24 14:51:38 GMT)
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Logically you are right: "caused...volcanoes" doesn't make much sense ("caused volcanoes...to *what*" one might ask).

But, English ain't necessarily logical, and the idiom here means "caused [resulted in] the formation of volcanoes" or "volcanic eruptions."

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Note added at 45 mins (2009-02-24 15:30:18 GMT)
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"Does 'volcanoes' here mean that there appeared volcanos, or that there were volcanic eruptions?"

Both.

Ideomatically "volcanoes," in this context would mean both the topographical features and thegeological phenomena of *errupting* volcanoes.

Technically, your source should have said "caused...volcanic erruptions of catalclysmic proportions" --since a volcano, itself, cannot have "cataclysmic proportions."

OED:

VOLCANO
1. a. Physiogr. A more or less conical hill or mountain, composed wholly or chiefly of discharged matter, communicating with the interior of the globe by a funnel or crater, from which in periods of activity steam, gases, ashes, rocks, and freq. streams of molten materials are ejected.

b. An eruption or discharge of flame.

Christopher Crockett
Local time: 02:32
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There may have already have been volcanoes and earthquakes

Explanation:
There may have already been volcanoes and earthquakes, but the impact is said to have increased these to cataclysmic proportions. It is not saying it caused them, it is saying it increased them to a Severely destructive state.

Gary D
Local time: 16:32
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English

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