......Atlantic
transform offsets
......Atlantic
transform offsets
| " Look at the King! Look at the the King ! Look at the King, the King, the King ! The King is in the altogether But altogether the altogether he's altogether as naked as the day that he was born." - (small boy). |
Fig.1 Atlantic transform offsets. The African and South American coasts. Contrasting Plate Tectonics' 'counterintuitive' view of ridge offsets (small red arrows) with that of Earth Expansion (large arrows; 'wysiwyg'; apparent displacement consequent on vertical movement ). Blue line = axis of spreading ridge; green lines = continental margins; big red arrows = obvious offsets (continental margins and spreading ridge as in Earth expansion) thinner red lines = transform faults; small red arrows = displacement according to plate tectonics.
| Plate tectonics says:- "Material is added at the ridges. Therefore the ocean floors spread away from the ridges. Therefore the sense of motion on the faults is defined by the segment between the ridges, which is dextral (small red arrows). Accordingly, the sum of this "dynamic dextral movement" has given us the ocean floors together with the continental rifting (and displacements) that we see." But the illustration shows what manifest nonsense this is, where transform faults displace continental margins (e.g. Africa) (sinistral displacement. Plate tectonics then would say "Ah, well, then that just shows how another movement has been superimposed and how exquisite this model is, and that (with more research) we can work it out, how it all happens" Earth expansion says:- "What you see is what you get: the ridges are growing upwards and transform faults are simply the expression of lateral adjustment as the gravitationally unstable, upward-growing ridges collapse and flatten off. |
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| This masterly
piece of Plate Tectonic gobbledegook is an even worse indictment of Plate
Ttectonics than the nonsense of subduction (that convenient
assumption) (if that is possible) because it has as additional ingredient
the mental capacity of the best Ptero$100brains in the world propping it
up. Now, don't laugh, because this is serious stuff; it involves
five decades (well, at least four) of teaching, and the dummies who swallowed
it and still swallow it - some of them are even teaching it to other
dummies. Hell! some of them are even running the country!
Look at it (looking at us),
one of the biggest crustal offsets on the face of the planet, involving
the continental crust, the immediate underlying spreading mantle, and the
spreading ridge that separates them. And they all go 'that-a-way'-
the way of the big red arrows. But plate tectonics says this is because
the offsets on the ridge, i.e., the movement whereby this is accomplished,
go 'this-a-way' ( the other way; small red arrows).
Yes? according to Plate tectonics this is incredibly
well supported, so, ..since the essence of science is
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. | . | . | that hypotheses
should be testable you need to put it to the test. Wave your hands
about in front of you, make the left hand the top arrows and the
right hand the bottom ones and watch what happens - ...see if you can make
that movement (the small arrows in the figure) give the offsets that the
big arrows do. Well,, ..does it? This is the sixty-four
thousand dollar question on which careers of a worldful of Earth Scientists
hang, so be careful what you do with those hands.
And don't listen to that small boy in the caption above. What would he know about Plate Tectonics anyway, when the King, the Queen and all the Courtiers have declared this raiment of Plate Tectonics to be the most remarkable suit of clothes ever to have been woven by Earth Scientists ? Just who were those two hoaxers anyhow? .... And who are you who listened to them? ( ... Amazing isn't it, how people can disbelieve the evidence of their own eyes in the rush to be part of the club.)
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Those who would neverthless maintain that Plate Tectonics representation of transform fault movement is legitimate despite the small boy's revelation and animations depicting the impossibility of ridge offset by transform faulting, (which it may be added is also Plate Tectonics own stated position) may care to read The Courtiers' Reply , an Open Letter on Richard Dawkins' website to suchlike criticisms of so-called science. They are not uncommon and go to the heart of the difference between rationalism which is what science *should be* about, and the urban myths (like rumpling tablecloths) which is what Plate Tectonics *is* about.
Another nail in the coffin
of plate tectonics