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- Title
Expansion Tectonics: A Continental Example - Australia.
- Authors
Maxlow, James
- Abstract
Expansion Tectonics (Maxlow, 2018) is a new way of looking at and understanding modern global observational data about the origin and subsequent history of Earth’s continents and oceans. Since the 1960s this 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. This conventional perspective insists that the origin of the continents and oceans is a random, non-predictable, and sometimes catastrophic process—a process that is understood by very few and remains unchallenged by most. By simply changing our assumptions about the physical characteristics of the ancient Earth, the new perspective on the evolution of Australia presented here represents a paradigm shift in understanding the way Australia and surrounding oceans formed and developed through time. In contrast to what we are currently led to believe, this new perspective is instead telling a completely different story about the origin of Australia, along with the remaining continents and oceans; one that shows a very simple, evolving, predictable, easily understood, and holistic process involving a progressively changing Earth surface area and surface curvature through time.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; PLATE tectonics; SURFACE of the earth; SURFACE area; OCEAN; CONTINENTS
- Publication
New Concepts in Global Tectonics Journal, 2022, Vol 10, Issue 2, p110
- ISSN
2202-5685
- Publication type
Article