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- Title
Why does Plate Tectonics Continue to Mislead the Geosciences?
- Authors
Maxlow, James
- Abstract
While Plate Tectonics continues to dominate the geosciences, modern global geological and geographical observational data tell a completely different story. Since the 1960s, this observational 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. In contrast to what we are currently led to believe, this global observational data is instead telling a completely different story about the origin of Earth's 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. It is suggested that now is the time for science to seriously consider that Plate Tectonics may be better suited to an increasing radius Earth mechanism, rather than continuing to constrain the geological, geographical, and biogeographical observational data to an outdated, blinkered, static radius Earth premise.
- Subjects
PLATE tectonics; EARTH sciences; SURFACE of the earth; SURFACE area; OCEAN
- Publication
New Concepts in Global Tectonics Journal, 2024, Vol 12, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
2202-5685
- Publication type
Article