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   Africa shrinks - You wouldn't read about it!
                 (...Except here.   ....More unbelievable garbage of Plate Tectonics...)


 
 

Fig.1.  Shrinking continents.  The coastlines of America and Africa are shorter than the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.  Therefore (in plate tectonics) these continents have shrunk as they moved away from the ridge. Horizontal bars top and bottom represent limiting transforms to the movement of separation.

 
Plate tectonics requires that the Earth has not increased in size.   The ridge represents the palaeoposition of Atlantic continental fracture.  The continents have moved apart.  The ridge is longer than the coastlines of the present-day continents.  Therefore the continents have shrunk as they moved apart.

Wow!!

If you're a bit puzzled what Platies mean exactly, when they say "transforms are the means whereby one plate moves past another", then you're not the only one.   Platies aren't particularly clear themselves, ...and what's more, get themselves into the ridiculous position of having to postulate some sort of immaculate conception of original offset for the displacements on transform faults, ..admitting that there is no way in their model whereby movment on transform faults can cause them.
 

Transforms?   Look at them.  Dozens of them.  Which is the defining one making the African plate "slide past" the American plate?  What a daft question (?) when they have a map showing exactly which transforms mark the plate boundaries.

   Why those particular ones?   You might well ask.  If you say all of them, then you'd be right, but then clearly you'd basically be talking about 'ridge'.

Well, ..so much for garbage.  Now the good oil.  Transform faults and ridges are actually just different expressions of the same dilational structure.  It's the way orthogonal fracture sets grow on the expanding curved substrate of the mantle - by 'cell-division'.    Platies think of them as two separate things - numbers one and two of the three boundaries that make up plates (1 =  ridge, 2 = transforms,  and 3 = subduction zones).   But they're not.  They're mutually tied.  1 and 2 are different expressions of the same thing.  It's an integrated structure that looks like a zip.  See it all as one. An integrated set.

So, if 1 and 2 are the same thing, and 3 doesn't exist (is only an assumption), then what's that telling us?   About the Sea Floors I mean.
 
 
 
 

 

Ziplocked

The answer of course is that it's not the continents that are shrinking, it's the ridges that are extending - along their length as well as across.   That is, plate tectonics is not telling the whole  story about the ocean floors.  Extension is along the ridges as well as across,  which contributes to proof for global expansion.
 
(Platies just don't understand transform faults - and that's that. They're dumb. Not you of course, dear reader.  If you're reading my page, you're not dumb.   You're clever.  Come back again. Help me save the world from Mad Platie disease - Geomatosis.


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