Shalom

I was discussing plate tectonics with someone, without any intention or preconception that tectonic faults might be the place where the Flood of Noah "broke" forth from the "Fountains of the Deep". During that conversation, it struck me that it was entirely possible.

As we know, plate tectonics theory states that at fault lines, subduction occurs, whereby one plate is submerged and the other overlaps it. However, even as a child, I can recall seeing a photo of a fault line and thinking that "Clearly, I don't see any subduction here. That doesn't look like any kind of overlapping at all."

Could the forumers please examine these photographs of fault lines, and, without any bias (yes, very difficult), respond to the following?

http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/images/wsci_03_img0412.jpg
https://yankeebarbareno.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/aerial-sanandreas-carrizoplain.jpg
http://images.onset.freedom.com/ocregister/kpimff-quakel.jpg
http://destination-yisrael.biblesearchers.com/.a/6a0120a610bec4970c016760f0d167970b-500wi
https://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7eujcj16n1rolx1fo1_1280.jpg
http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs091/1101811920551/img/459.jpg?a=1107012415413
http://flatrock.org.nz/static/frontpage/21a_san_andreas_fault.jpg

• Without any strings attached, and without attempting to deny or support any particular preconception, can you see, with your own eyes, subduction occuring at any of these fault lines?
• Without any strings attached, and without any allegiances influencing your answer, answering truthfully based on what you see with your own two eyes: can you or can you not see smoothened rock at these zones? Do you see evidence of water attrition and smoothening?
• Without attempting to defend or attack any specific model of belief: do these zones look like areas of subduction, or areas where some massive quantity of water seems to have gushed out?
• With your own two eyes: do you see clear patterns of water channels around these zones?

Please of course, keep in mind that the idea of a worldwide flood is not unique to the Torah, and it is found in many old writings and historical records, so this does not necessarily challenge anybody's preconceptions in a virulent way.

Key text:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen+7%3A11&version=KJV:
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

As for my own personal view on this: I think the fault lines are really the places where Noah's flood "broke" forth from the depths of the earth, and that YHVH closed them up again when the earth was sufficiently covered. I think that they look exactly like what they look like: breakages in the earth's surface that have been closed up again.