| frontpage <../index.html> | nonsense <../nonsense/index.html> | expansion | Earth Expansion (...Previously known as Plate Tectonics....) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (*Lower image*: continental assembly prior to Pangaean dispersal viewed from opposite sides of the Pacific; dilation is hinged in the Mediterranean region. Earth is shown smaller than in the top image to conserve space.) Purchasing the disc accesses the content below and contributes to support of the site. Thank you to ALL correspondents. The lists below largely reflect the order of writing and prolific links between pages frequently repeat themes so that the main points are quickly apparent. The site does not include an exposition of Plate Tectonics, which is only mentioned insofar as refutation deems it necessary (the Wikipedia provides a reasonable account of the consensus view). The geological construction is an original work exclusive to the site, so if referencing please credit accordingly. Essential elements are:- * A planetary oblateness in Mesozoic times somewhat greater than that of today, * Equatorial rupture coupled with massive mantle breakout focussed in the Indonesian - South China Sea region. * Large-scale swivelling crustal accommodation to breakout followed by longitudinal dilation of the Atlantic, The importance of Earth rotation in steering adjustment to Pangaean dispersal follows directly from this construction. *_Synoptic simplicity_* [1 ] [2 ] _Degradation rituals - a selection_ 2006-06-17 to 23 Coming soon 2006-06-18 to 24 No mechanism 2006-06-24 to 26 Negating Plate Tectonics - Strike 3 2006-06-29 - July 1 Trouble with rubble 2006-05-26 - Aug 16 How to falsify EE? 2006-05-14 - 21 Questions for the bored No 38 2006-01-26 - May 30 Q. for the bored 1 - 40 Christmas 2003 - the essential picture Christmas 2004 - the Sumatra tsunami Christmas 2005 - abstracts _Preface_ Preface The evidence for Earth Expansion The evidence for Plate Tectonics -------------------------- Abstract - 2000 About: "look Ma - no plates" _Introduction_ Site origins Eureka The Law Introduction Stage 1 - Precursor Stage 2 - Thesis _Concepts and Principles_ General Transform faults Spreading Ridges Subduction zones - (see 'Nonsense') Axioms Denying convection Dip and strike Pangea template Crustal scale boudinage Boudinage analogue Structural sequence A question of size (hokey-kokey) Push or pull? Mantle grows - crust doesn't Ridge growth - the 'Y' of it Ridges grow - (underplating) Ridge symmetry Ridge -transforms (synoptic profile) Overlapping spreading centres Transform faults - proof of expansion? Transform faults - (South Atlantic) Transform faults - (North Atlantic) Transform faults - (Pacific 1) Transform faults - (Pacific 2) Transform faults - the nemesis of PT Transform faults grow - initiation1 Transform faults grow - initiation2 Transform faults grow - profile Transform faults as tramrails Transform faults first motions Spacedust Earth expansion template The Four Horses of the Apocalypse Boudicca Ninja Mata Hari Sufi Mountain building and orogenesis Uplift Crustal collapse Crustal crumple (Morcles) Crust-mantle decoupling Arcuate faults and island arcs Circular mantle breakthrough -1 The dynamics of curvature Valles Pacificus Circular mantle breakthrough - 2 Gyro Parallellism of ridges and uplifts Listric faults Three-part global structural sequence Continental margins - active / passive Oblateness partitions spin symmetry Sea-floor spreading Spreading template Continental margin, Brazil Himalayan collapse Himalayan collapse - more Seismicity, Asian Torsion, Pacific extrusion The eye of the Pacific Movement picture Subduction according to Earth Expansion Folds, thrusts, plateaus, mountains, basins Overriding versus subduction Plates grow (!) do not move (!) Plate Tectonics is a theory Earth expansion is a fact _FAQS_ Where does the extra mass come from? _Reconstructing Pangaea_ The key to Pangaean disintegration The Indian ocean Africa -Arabia - India - Madagascar India - Australia Australia - New Zealand Australia - Antarctica Antarctica Africa - Antarctica LIPS (Large Igneous Provinces) South America - East Pacific Rise Zagros - Persia - Red Sea Gondwana assembly Pangaea dispersion-1 Pangaea dispersion-2 Himalayas Circumglobal mountain belt loop Big Rip 1: northeastern extent Northern hemisphere (slipped bikini) Northern hemisphere - torsional disruption Australia - Antarctica (conundrum) Look what happens when.... Apocalypse now! Looking at you Unroofing the Pacific diapir (scorpion/ fan) Global symmetry 1 Birth of the Pacific Opening of the Pacific Torsion vectors of the Pacific The hinge of Pangaean opening Unhinging the Caribbean Pivot Palaeoposition of North America Alpine region as gravitational collapse Kamchatka Nankai Trough _Ridges _ Ridge growth Structure Abyssal hills UP means UP _Triple Junctions_ General Rodriguez Triple Junction Galapagos Rise Afar Tasman Tasman step-down _Tomography_ The Pacific diapir - Indonesian sector Unroofing the Pacific diapir Pangaean ambital dislocation - Torsion Line 1 _Topography_ Introduction Mountains of the world What is a mountain belt? Crustal uplift? - or falling sea-level? Crumpled crust Gravitational Collapse - Pakistan Gravitational collapse - Iran, Pakistan Drainage systems of the world Blobtonics and dissected plateaus _Anatomy of the Pacific diapir_ Figurative summary Hawaiian hotspot; Fiery Ring Torsion Line 1 Diapirism to Torsion in 700km _'Grace ' (Dual Satellite Earth Gravity)_ The Hawaiian Hot-Spot Pangaean dilation _Expansion-in-torsion_ Synoptic framework - "Figure-of-Eight" Global torsions Diapiric correlates of an expanding Earth The Western Pacific - overview 43my Pacific bend Mediterranean diapirism The Red spot of Planet Earth The Russian Peninsula Himalayan dilation and the Alaskan Pivot The Marianas and the Pacific Scissoring the Americas - the proto-Pacific Madagascar in the southern position Placeholders Torsion Hotspots Clouds 'n crust The galaxy far away One for the advanced class Gravitational collapse Links to related sites <../links.html> <../nonsense/index.html> . . | frontpage <../index.html> | nonsense <../nonsense/index.html> | expansion |