Past GHCA Meetings and Events

March 6  at 7 pm,  GHCA meeting and webinar: 

Stress, Strain, and Rheology

What happens when push comes to shove deep in the earth.

Rheology is about how the various characteristics of a material changes when force is applied. An elastic spring changes size or shape as applied force is increased. It snaps back to its normal size when the force is removed. But if too much force is applied the spring will be permanently deformed in size and shape. Water at normal pressure is a solid below 32ºF but liquid above that up to 212ºF and a vapor above that. Changes like solid, liquid, or vapor are “phase changes”. At temperatures and pressures deep inside the Earth’s mantle, rocks there can have more than on solid phase state as well as a liquid state. These phase changes make rheology rather complicated.  They also make it difficult to model just what will happen during events like plate subduction. On March 6 we will build an introduction to rheology in geology. This will play a large role in upcoming presentations.  It will be a lot more fun when we understand these issues. It is also fun to keep the speakers on their toes while they present.                                                                                                                                                            Please join us for this adventure of science and Bible discovery.

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Meeting Location 

This event will be presented at GHCA’s usual meeting location, Houston’s First, The Loop, Reception Room at 7401 Katy Frwy, Houston TX 77024. See the maps in the right sidebar. 

 

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February 13  at 7 pm,  GHCA meeting and webinar: 

Ellis Huges’ 20 Reasons to Question Plate Tectonics

Examined by Geoscientist Rod Kirkpatric

In 2023 Ellis Hughes published a book critiquing the “standard” form of plate tectonics and continental drift over the last billions of years or more. I put the word “standard” in quotations because over the last few decades many geoscientists have recognized various technical problems with the standard model of plate tectonics and presented various fixes or improvement. On February 13th Geoscientist Rod Kirkpatric will examine some the most important of the 2o questions. We will see why these improvements are needed. We will also see something about why no combination of these improvements are entirely successful. Sometime in the future we will examine the role of our partial ignorance of the stress vs strain properties of rocks or minerals at extreme temperatures at great depths and pressures inside of the Earth. Eventually we will see what different scientists have done to gain some new knowledge experimentally or to work around areas of ignorance theoretically. Please join us for this adventure of science and Bible discovery.

Register for this meeting webinar here.

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Meeting Location 

This event will be presented at GHCA’s usual meeting location, Houston’s First, The Loop, Reception Room at 7401 Katy Frwy, Houston TX 77024. See the maps in the right sidebar. 

 

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November 7  at 7 pm,  GHCA meeting and webinar: 

Amazing Design Features of Costa Rica

David and MaryJo Nutting

On November 7th the GHCA will have the great pleasure of hosting Dave and MaryJo Nutting who founded and built up one of the finest creation miniseries in the USA.  Costa Rica has one of the most biologically diverse ecologies on the planet! In this diversity is an abundance of evidence for creation and not evolution. Come see for yourself. This presentation will be a special delight to a very broad audience.

Register for this meeting webinar here.

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Meeting Location 

Amazing Design Features of Costa Rica will be presented at GHCA’s usual meeting location, Houston’s First, The Loop, Reception Room at 7401 Katy Frwy, Houston TX 77024. See the maps in the right sidebar. 

 

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