Auxotectonics Forum

I've wrote to Dr. Wu referring to this discussion. This is his answer: "Hi, Mike: Thank you for your interest on this subject. I re-examined the paper and found that in my equation 1, it did not explicitly say that horizontal motions follow plate only. SO, in theory, the equation is correct. T...

So, when you write that "vacuum fluctuations are given energy by the electric field to become real", I read "fluctuations in the EM field are given energy by the EM field to form particles. See the problem? I still have a problem with that. Could you develop a bit? I mean, if the ene...

Growing Planet theory accommodates thrust faults too. One plate can be growing faster than its adjoining plates, causing thrusting. Indeed, the south pole diapir of Enceladus causes wrinkling. However I don't think all the ridge features on Mercury are thrust faults. Conventional theory doesn't con...

Thanks for this useful aid to visualization. Of course one may reassemble these terranes for any of the given time intervals by breaking up the present continents. However, I don't see that one must "break up" the present continents (presumably the three continents in your graphic represe...

I believe that the description made in Zitenilli et al is quite complete.
I would say as a ultrashort summary that the Alboran orogenic arc encounters a transform fault...

Sometimes, a picture is worth more than a thousand words.
Here is a figure that should tell you a lot about the true nature of mobile arc systems and subduction zones.

I made a figure to further illustrate why Wilson cycles are actually artifactual: Wilson-cycles.png Every letter identifies a terrane that formed at a specific time. Let's say that the age of the different terranes is: A: 400 Ma B: 700 Ma C: 100 Ma D: 1000 Ma E: 1300 Ma The different parts are now d...

I rant about it here. http://expandingearth.freeforums.net/thread/40/standard-physics-model-planet-growth Observed for 50 years in the lab, plasmoids are the end result of Ampere's Law compressing electricity into very small volumes. I guess you refer to the Z-pinch effect? the resultant electromag...

Hi James and welcome to the forum!
Reading your introduction, it seems that there are opportunities for interesting discussions here
But be aware that I'm a skeptic and I will give you a hard time with some of your hypotheses

And now my answers! 1) Is there a significant relative displacement between the GPS stations located on the coast of Lybia and Egypt, and those located in Italy/Balkans/Europe. a- yes b- no b. According to the vector length, the stations located in the hashed area do not display significant relative...

Note that "the large amount of new surface area being created at dilational bands" is evidently less than the entire surface area of Europa. They [Kattenhorn and Prockter] found features that had been separated and shifted by movement of the crust, and when they matched those features all...

Michael Manga said “We see expansion at the surface so there must be contraction somewhere.” Always the same bogus logic. They will go nowhere as long as they're stuck with that preconceived idea. Well, I still believe that the trigger of the revolution will come from the observations of moons like ...

Geologists have long known that Europe and Africa were not separated from central Mediterranean up to Central Iran at the end of the Paleozoic. The sedimentary sequences are typical of a shallow sea extending from the periphery of the Hercynian orogen to the Arabo-African margin without any oceanic ...

Dinox » Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:38 pm wrote: Who is jbl007?

A french member of this forum.

There are not so many

No news from him for quite a long time.

One common misconception about auxotectonics is that it is at odd with the accretion theory of planet and moon formation. It is not. Auxotectonics does not describe the initial formation of planets and planetoid, but their subsequent evolution. In a paper published in Science, a new mechanism of moo...

An interesting article just published in Science: Jeffrey C. Andrews-Hanna et al "Ancient Igneous Intrusions and Early Expansion of the Moon Revealed by GRAIL Gravity Gradiometry" "The earliest history of the Moon is poorly preserved in the surface geologic record because of the high ...

You wouldn't think the worlds smallest living organisms would support and grow the mass of the planets largest ever in existence creatures but they do. Much in the same way, upon checking the life cycle of stars, it seems when they are young, they are surrounded by a massive field of reflective dus...

Interesting, This video comes from NASA, from this page . One quote from Thomas Watters is very instructive: "We think the moon is in a general state of global contraction because of cooling of a still hot interior" Always the same assumption that the telluric bodies must be cooling and th...

"Mantle plumes and dynamics of the Earth interior — towards a new model" S Cwojdziñski Geol Rev 52, p817 (pdf reprint HERE ) Abstract Seismic tomography provides reconstructions of thermal-density structure of the Earth’s mantle as deep as the man-tle/core boundary (CMB). For the first tim...

In this paper, Scalera present his model of active margins based on seismic data. "Earthquakes, phase changes, fold belts: from Apennines to a global perspective" G Scalera (2010) GeoActa, Special Publication 3, pp. 25-43. (pdf: http://tinyurl.com/bvegv7r) Abstract: Earthquakes are not uni...

"Fossils, frogs, floating islands and expanding Earth in changing-radius cartography – A comment to a discussion on Journal of Biogeography" G Scalera (2007) Ann Geophys 50(6) p789 (pdf reprint HERE ) Abstract: In this short note I have tried to make clear the issues surrounding a recent d...

Recognizing a limited recycling of seafloor at active margins, James Maxlow made expanding earth reconstruction models based on the geophysical and geological data available in the 90s, quantified the growth and verified the predictions made by the models using other sets of data.The match appears t...

This review list the arguments supporting the expanding earth theory and refute the arguments against it (Notably paleoradius calculations). "The Necessity for Earth Expansion" S. Warren Carey (1983) pp375-393 in Carey, SW (ed): Expanding Earth Symposium, Sydney, 1981. (pdf reprint HERE ) ...

This review by Carey was published in Earth Science Reviews in 1975. Part of this review are outdated but it is of historic importance and many arguments are still perfectly valid today. "The Expanding Earth - an Essay Review" SW Carey (1975) Earth-Science Reviews 11 p 105-143 (pdf reprint...

Supercontinents cycle based on the hypothesis of the Iapetus ocean is certainly Wilson biggest mistake. Carey debunked it decades ago showing that it was actually a transtensional strike-slip system, like the Dead Sea or Valles Marineris on Mars (See Here ). So here is what Carey has to say about Wi...