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This recent much-vaunted announcement is actually a confirmation of a twenty-year-old hypothesis.  This ocean was named Oceanus Borealis by Vic Baker in 1991.   A number of planetary scientists have reserved judgment on the existence of this ocean, but the greater extent of the mega-outflow channels leading toward this ocean, recently published, lend credence to its past presence. One difficulty, which is seldom discussed in the scientific literature, is the fact that the polar regions of an already frozen planet are the least likely place for a liquid ocean to form.   Unfortunately, all the astrophysicists in the world fail to recognize the simple explanation of the dilemma of liquid water on Mars – that it was in an orbit much closer to the Sun for billions of years.  Even if this is understood, the obvious question is: Where did all the Martian water go? A few planetary scientists still hold onto the futile hope that the vast ocean is now hidden in the permafrost below the surface of Mars.

The recent announcement is based on a more thorough study of the Martian terrain using data collected from existing probes orbiting the planet, by a Northern Illinois geography professor Wei Luo.   His group has found that the network of outflow channels leading to the ocean is much more extensive than previously thought, thereby helping establish the presence of the vast northern ocean.

In an interesting coincidence, the same hydrologist, Professor Victor Baker, who coined the term Oceanus Borealis, has recently published a book titled Megaflooding on Earth and Mars. In this book, the authors discuss  the megafloods in northwestern US, originally interpreted by Harlan Bretz as outflows from melting glaciers toward the end of the ice age, and the megafloods indicated by the outflow channels observed on Mars. (Megafloods are defined as greater than one million cubic meters per second.)

In spite of the promising title, the book merely discusses the magnitudes of the megafloods on Mars and Earth and proposes that both might be the result of alternate warming and freezing.  The authors still take the currently accepted line that the megafloods on Mars occurred billions of years ago, in the Noachian geologic epoch (4.5 to 3.5 billion years BP).   The naming of this epoch is ironic, since the megafloods were actually occurring during the time of Noah, roughly 2800 BC.  Actually, the megafloods on both planets occurred as a result of one hundred fifteen-year encounters between the two planets, which occurred between 3700 and 700 BC.  Thus geologists also have the wrong date for the NW United States megafloods, which they date in the late Pleistocene (before 12,000 BP) because they think that that glaciation corresponded with the putative earlier ice age.

In my proposed recent cyclic catastrophism scenario the megafloods in the northwest United States and on Mars were not only concurrent, but were causally related.  The reason for the great extent of the Martian outflow channels was that each time it was captured in its geosynchronous orbit, at a surface-to-surface distance of only 33,000 km, the tidal force of the Earth caused (a) its north pole to remain oriented toward the Earth and (b) as a result drew all the water in its northern hemisphere toward its north pole. The power of this tidal force is evidenced by the enormous flows on Mars, estimated to have been as large as a billion cubic meters per second with velocities as great as 170 miles per hour, making them orders of magnitude greater than the megafloods in the NW United States.

The largest megafloods on Earth, which occurred in response to the tidal force exerted by Mars upon each approach, are as yet unknown to Earth scientists.  At these times Mars’ tidal force drew all the water from the Mediterranean, Red, Black, Caspian Seas and the Persian Gulf across land toward Mt. Kailas, but because of the elevation of the terrain it ended up covering northern India to a depth of 5000 feet.  Its elevation is marked by the Siwalik formation in the Himalayan foothills, which contain the bones of millions of sea-level animals in a horizontally bedded deposit.  The M-layer in the Mediterranean and Red sea beds, which triggered the so-called Messinian Salinity Crisis, was deposited during the one-hundred periods of fifteen years that these Seas were empty and their salt water evaporated.

The water collected at Mars’ north pole at the beginning of each encounter was then episodically transferred to the Earth as a result of internal convulsions resulting from rapid alignments of the two planets with the Moon, and the Sun and Moon combined.  This water fell primarily in great basins in Tibet, beneath the position of Mars.   Tibetan monks have paintings of ships sailing on vast lakes as recently as 500 BC, but uniformitarian scientists maintain that such lakes could not have existed so recently.  The great Himalayan river valleys all formed when the these vast resevoirs breached their confinement and catastrophically cascaded through the Himalayas.

Where did all the Martian water go?  It was brought to the Earth via thousands of internal convulsions within Mars and is a significant part of every human being.  The intricacies of these cosmic events, which all follow the laws of physics (actually the Laws of God – He was here first) lead to the inevitable conclusion that a higher power, Yehovah, initiated them in order to replenish a sickly Earth to support the increasing population of mankind.

This scenario explains the poorly defined ‘coastlines’ of the Oceanus Borealis. At the beginning of the Vedic Period (3700 to 700 BC), Mars was a full of life and water was everywhere on the planet.   It was called the ‘Great Green’ in Egyptian myth.  This ocean only formed during the captures of Mars and during each capture a significant portion was ejected to the Earth.  Then during the next fifteen years, when Mars orbited the Sun, the water became redistributed evenly over the planet.  This was done in order that the inaccessible water in the southern hemisphere during each encounter could be brought to the northern hemisphere on subsequent encounters.  The tidal force of the Earth also produced the small observed southward flows in craters in the southern hemisphere.

The megafloods in northwestern US were the result of the fact that the spin axis of the mantle of the Earth had to shift to Hudson Bay in order for priori-Mars (still had its solid core), which orbited geosynchronously over Mt. Kailas, tidally locked onto the uplifted mass anomaly, i.e. the Tibetan-Himalayan complex.  Thus for each fifteen-year capture period, Hudson Bay remained at a point perpendicular to the plane of the Earths orbit, and was essentially the north pole.  This is why the late glaciation in North America was centered in Hudson Bay. At the end of each fifteen year encounter, when the mantle reverted to its normal spin axis, the glaciers melted, and the outflow, probably impeded by glacial dams, finally were released catastrophically.  Since there were one hundred captures and releases of priori-Mars between 3700 and 700 BC, there are one hundred sedimentary layers in the Missoula Valley – each formed by the sediment left by succeeding releases of glacial water and separated by “less than twenty” thin, varved layers.  The flooding on priori-Mars occurred at the beginning of each encounter as Mars was captured while the northwestern US flooding occurred in the months following each Mars’ departure as the fifteen-year-old glaciers melted. But both took place during the Vedic Period.