mirrored file at http://SaturnianCosmology.Org/ For complete access to all the files of this collection see http://SaturnianCosmology.org/search.php ========================================================== _Welcome!__ to Bill Erickson's Earth Expansion Website._ Expanding Earth by James Maxlow Space Elephant by Salvador Dali _On the Origin of Dinosaurs and Mammals_ Despite an increasing wealth of fossil evidence, many important dinosaur adaptations - including giantism, bipedality, and powered flight - have never been adequately explained. The dinosaurs' remarkable success at the expense of the once-dominant mammal-like reptiles also remains an open question. In an attempt to solve these problems, it is hypothesized [6]here that the breakup of Pangaea actually signals the onset of a brief episode of global swelling during the Early Mesozoic which caused, as a direct consequence, a slight reduction in surface gravity. Such a change in the geophysical environment would have had a profound affect on vertebrate evolution; it is argued that many of the dinosaurs' unique adaptations, and their evolutionary success at the expense of the mammal-like reptiles, were made possible by a decrease in surface gravity during the Triassic and Jurassic. _Papers by Bill Erickson_ __ [8]On the Origin of Dinosaurs and Mammals (1990) __ [9]S. Warren Carey: Rogue Scientist from Down Under (1985) __ [10]Ever Since Wegener: A Brief History of the Expanding Earth Hypothesis (1988) _Estimates of Dinosaur Size_ __ [12]Nicholas Hotton, 1980 __ [13]Robert Bakker, 1980 __ [14]Jan Peczkis, 1994 __ [15]A comparison of Hotton, Bakker, and Peczkis, with references _Other Expanding Earth Websites_ __ [17]Earth, Universe, Cosmos by S. Warren Carey __ [18]Interview with Professor Sam Carey (1911-2002) -- Australian Academy of Science __ [19]Torsional Tectonics -- Don Findlay __ [20]A General Introduction to the Expanding Earth -- David Ford __ [21]Dinosaurs and the Expanding Earth -- Stephen Hurrell __ [22]Expansion Tectonics -- Karl W. Luckert __ [23]Global Expansion Tectonics -- James Maxlow __ [24]Quantification of an Archaean to Recent Earth Expansion Process Using Global Geological and Geophysical Data Sets by James Maxlow (PhD thesis) __ [25]Our Earth is Expanding -- Lawrence S. Myers __ [26]Plate Tectonics: A Paradigm Under Threat by David Pratt __ [27]Expanding Earth Bibliography -- Jos Verhulst [28]Back to Top _Updated: Friday, June 14, 2002_ Copyright © 2002 William Carnell Erickson. All rights reserved.