Message #81412

[Mario Dantas]

HFN,

There would certainly be evidence of this everywhere. 
In which none to this point has surfaced so far.

The Sahara Desert, all the Oceans Floor, the Himalayan post Orogeny, maybe even the moisturized Atmosphere is a sign of the veracity of the event. The water can make disappear any sign of it. The Ice and water at that moment might have acted more or less like in the Leidenfrost effect:

The effect can be seen as drops of water are sprinkled into a pan at various times while it is heating up. Initially, as the temperature of the pan is below 100 °C, the water just flattens out and slowly evaporates. As the temperature of the pan goes above 100 °C, the water drops hiss on touching the pan and evaporate relatively quickly. Later, as the temperature goes past the Leidenfrost point, the Leidenfrost effect comes into play. On contact the droplets of water do not evaporate away so quickly. This time, they bunch up into small balls of water and skitter around, lasting much longer than when the temperature of the pan was much lower. This effect lasts until a much higher temperature causes any further drops of water to evaporate too quickly to cause this effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_Effect





 Qoais,

the rock would be too heavy to float

The Crust is less dense than the "liquid" mantle underneath, therefore it should always float, like an Iceberg floating on the Ocean's water.