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- Title
Expansion Tectonics: A Proposed Causal Mechanism.
- Authors
Maxlow, James
- Abstract
In past papers to the NCGT Journal (Vol 9, No 3; Vol 9, No 4,) Expansion Tectonics (Maxlow, 2018) was introduced as a new way of looking at and understanding modern global observational data about the origin and subsequent history of Earth's continents and oceans. It was acknowledged that this modern data has traditionally been gathered in support of Plate Tectonic studies and as such, until now, has rarely been looked at other than from a conventional Plate Tectonic perspective. In these past papers the author utilised the "Geological Map of the World," digitized with permission from the Commission for the Geological Map of the World and UNESCO (1990), in order to reverse-engineer geology back in time. Reverse-engineering seafloor and continental geology enables past plate assemblages and configurations of the ancient continents to be accurately constrained using modern geology rather than geophysics. From this exercise, a series of spherical geological models of the Earth were presented showing the precise locations and configurations of the ancient supercontinents and seas, ranging back in time to the early-Archaean. Of significance is that these plate assemblages represent the first time that the ancient Earth has been geologically constrained back to the early pre-Cambrian, and hence can be considered as unique. It was concluded that by simply changing our assumptions about the physical characteristics of the ancient Earth, the new perspective presented represented a paradigm shift in understanding the way the Earth, continents and oceans formed and developed through time.
- Publication
New Concepts in Global Tectonics Journal, 2023, Vol 11, Issue 2, p138
- ISSN
2202-5685
- Publication type
Article