Introduction - from the vantage of space

Fig.1.  Dilational pivots of the circumglobal mountain belt loop.  (a) The Himalayan pivot incorporating the entire Western Pacific, about which the belt bifurcates northwards through the Russian Peninsula and southwards through Indonesia New Zealand and Antarctica; The split duplicating the central part of the 'scorpion' about the Tarim Basin is evident;  (b) scissoring open and unhinging of the Americas about the Caribbean Pivot; the pivot is actually the entirety of the Gulf - Caribbean region which is a zone of extension  (1.. 2) .

 

From the Alps through the Himalayas, China and Russia, ...a single fold belt, ...widening ever eastwards, ...and dilating hugely in the Asian region terminates abruptly against the back-arc basins of the Western Pacific, which lies symmetrically enclosed by the pincers of what might appear to be, from the vantage point of the Moon, a scorpion.

Why?  Why does it widen, ...Why the symmetry?  And why does it terminate?   Where did it go?  When did it happen?... And how?   The belt increases from about 1,200km in the tail of the 'scorpion' in the Mediterranean region to the west, to about 10,000km in the east, where it stops abruptly against the Pacific Ocean, the largest dilational tract on the planet.   Could the juxtaposed dilations of the two be related in some way?  ...the mountain belt on land, and the Pacific Ocean in the <ahem> sea?  Or to put it more geologically, could the Pacific Ocean, an uplift in the mantle, be related to the mountain belt, an uplift in the continental crust?

If we look more closely, we see that the mountain belt does not terminate in the arms of the scorpion.  Southwards from Indonesia it can be traced through the topographic corrugations in the sea floor between the Tonga - Kermadec Trench to the east coast of Australia, across the spreading ridge of the Southern Ocean to Antarctica, and  across the Falklands loop to the South American Cordilleras.   Going the other way the mountain belt takes but a short step from the Russian Peninsula across the Bering Sea to Alaska and the North American Cordilleras.  Thus is the Pacific encircled, not by some mere contact of continental and oceanic crust around some 'fiery ring', but by the dilated arms of a mountain belt of global  proportions  -  the combined  mountain belts of Europe, Asia, and the Americas - the present-day mountain belts of the world.

The question then is even more pertinent: is this circumglobal mountain belt and the Pacific Ocean related?   The answer, ...to which the entirety of this site is directed, is, "Most certainly", .. but not in the happy, hick-hoe-down manner of galloping to-and-fro Wilson-cycle accordion plate tectonics. Mother Earth dances to a far more sedate and elegant tune - one of simple dilation, to which the counterpoint is torsion.

Identifying the continuity of this circumglobal mountain belt loop has far-reaching ramifications, for in determining how its dilation came about and its relation to the ocean floors is encrypted the key that relates the Earth's deformation to its spin, thereby placing the geological history of the Earth firmly in the celestial mechanics of the solar system - and, simultaneously,  negating convection-driven Plate Tectonics, i.e., the negation of Plate Tectonics is in the distribution of the mountain belt shown in Fig.2 (if we only but see it)  just as the Earth's rotation is encrypted in the transition from day to night - if we could but see it.  From this point in time it is easily evident to a child, but once, ...it was not at all apparent even to the most prestigious intellect, especially that blinded by religion (there are many parallels between science and religion..)

Figure base courtesy of NASA.

Fig.2.  Dilational pivots of the Circumglobal mountain belt loop.  Tracing  the dilated arms of the circumglobal mountain belt loop around the present-day Pacific, from the Himalayan pivot about which the belt bifurcates northwards through the Russian Peninsula and southwards through Indonesia New Zealand and Antarctica; Thinning of the belt in Central America is a direct consequence of unhinging the Caribbean Pivot   (1..2)   ,  a direct mirror analogue of the back-arc-basins of the Western Pacific ( 3. )

 

Plate Tectonics says  that mountain belts are thrown up by the collision of plates moving independently about the Earth's surface, yet has no explanation how such mish-mash "independent movement" manages to produce such architectural continuity of the belts, nor, as we shall see, how there manages to be inserted zones of extension between the colliding juggernaut and the resisting buttress.  Instead, loose reference to 'Wilson cycles' is invoked, a concept of in-situ accordion-like opening and closing of the crust that would pay tribute to a tap-dancer.  The global linear continuity of mountain belts shown in the figure is something of an embarrassment to Plate Tectonics which is why the reality of 'independent plate movement' is rarely mentioned compared to the fiction of the theory (e.g.,  Indian collision with Asia, ...crumpling the crust to throw up the himalayas, ... is completely at odds with the reality. )

Summary:-  The mountain belts of the world form a linearly continuous loop that has been grossly dilated along its axis by the eye-like shape of the Pacific, swivelling open the Americas to the East and dilating it in the Asian region  to form the arcuate dilational ruptures of the Western Pacific.  The linear continuity of the belt, its domination by flat-lying stratigraphy and first-order extensional structure (i.e., not compressional crumple-crust as touted by Plate Tectonics) militates against any model that sees its topographic elevation to be due to compression by the independent movement of so-called "colliding plates".  On these simple grounds alone, plate movement is set aside as an untenable mechanism to describe what we see.  The questions then arise, what is the nature of this high tract of land?  By what dynamics did it dilate to scissor open the crust and unhinge the Americas in the Caribbean region?  By what sequence of events did these dynamics progress to give the pattern of continental disruption we see at the present day?  And what are the remnant fossil expression of it that inform us of the process?  Since the Atlantic Indian and Southern Oceans are uncomplicated retrofits of the continental crust, exploration of an answer to these questions shifts to proper understanding of the relationship of Pacific extrusion to its bordering landmasses.  This site looks afresh at the evidence and concludes that Plate Tectonics is untenable and that its core pillar, the assumption that the Earth cannot be getting bigger, is false: the Earth is indeed expanding.
 
 

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