Preface
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The Earth's spin is clearly imprinted on global structure and is central to understanding the evolutionary dynamics of planetary geology, yet it is entirely omitted from Plate Tectonic theory. For this reason and from the much simpler picture of global geology that incorporating the Earth's spin gives us, and from the many contradictions that undermine Plate Tectonic theory, Plate Tectonics is regarded here as untenable and facing its demise. There will be no transition. Virtually nothing of Plate Tectonic theory is redeemable. Its tenets are false, built from the beginning around the hubristic assumption that the Earth cannot be getting bigger. In the classic tradition
of paradigm change Earth Expansion/ enlargement provides a model for global
tectonics that surpasses Plate Tectonics. Firstly, it explains existing
spatial and temporal relationships between mountain belts, spreading ridges,
transform faults, subduction zones and stratigraphic succession much more
simply and more comprehensively than does Plate Tectonics. Secondly,
it is inclusive of data that is not incorporated by Plate Tectonics.
Thirdly, it explains aspects of global structure that Plate Tectonics cannot.
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Earth expansion provides a framework for advancement of geological thinking in particular and science in general every bit as pivotal as the observations which forced abandonment of flat-earthism and geocentricism centuries ago. This book (disk) presents the geological evidence that the Earth is indeed getting bigger, approximately doubling its diameter in the last three hundred million years or so by the extrusion of the mantle. This conclusion begins with the observation that the mountain belts encircling the Pacific and extending through the Himalayas and the Mediteranean are one. Then follows a description of how the structural elements that describe the Earth's spin also define global enlargement, how preservation of stratigraphic sequence on the crust is the result of outwards growth of the planet as epicontinental seas recede, how crustal crumpling by plate collision (orogenesis) is a myth, ...i.e., how mountains cannot be formed by the collision of plates but are simply the eroded remnants of plateaus (elevated tracts of the planet) undergoing gravitational correction as the crust detaches from the mantle and collapses as it adjusts to the increasing size (decreasing curvature) of the Earth in response to mantle breakthrough. <over>
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