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One might think that in the terms of geologic time, the year 2000 would have little impact. But either due to amazing coincidence, or other forces beyond normal comprehension, there seems to be a culmination of geologic forces associated with the millennium, unlike any found in the geologic record. The reasons for this crises are summarized as follows.
Prior to the impact of the meteor/comet at the K/T boundary, the plates of the earth were in relative harmony. Imagine if you will, a billiard table with all of the racked balls neatly arranged. The plates of the earth were like the billiard balls and the meteor/comet is represented by the cue ball. Once the cue ball hits the other balls, they disperse as far away from each other as possible. However, the balls as opposed to the tectonic plates, are able to bounce off of the rails reducing their kinetic energy by half. The plates, having no rails and existing on a spherical globe, continue on, until colliding into each other on the far side of the globe. Now imagine that rather than billiard balls, the plates are sheets of ice on a lake. The chances that they will simply run into each other and bounce off one another is relatively small. Due to their area to thickness ratio, what is much more likely is that the sheets of ice will slide up over each other destroying whatever is on the face side of the sheet below. Now imagine these same sheets of ice on a lake over a intermittent hot spring. We calculate that approximately 74 percent of the known hot spots of the Earth will surface through the crust and that unknown deeper hot spots will emerge.
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