Auxotectonics Forum

>Can't wait to find out what will happen if certain individuals in the infamous Expanding Earth thread read this ...
Our response to this is the same as to every other attempt by conventional theorist to use their flawed model to explain planets. We point out the flaws. This one was easy. But ...

On first consideration it is not obvious why "the structurally unified eastern half of the Atlantic Ocean" (Yu. V. Chudinov, 1998, p. 162) should be thought of as the location of a boundary dividing the African Plate from the Eurasian Plate.

If it is taken to be such a boundary, what type of plate ...

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 represent the ...

Over at RatSkep, DougC recently posted a link to a new estimate, based on lobate scarp evidence, of contraction of Mercury - a reduction in radius of about 7 percent. Earlier estimates based on less complete photography from the Mariner mission in the mid-1970s, and also considering lobate scarps ...

The page below has references and links to Dr. Kattenhorn's publications. Many of them look interesting. Anyone motivated to take up questions of the interpretation of other planets and moons would do well to become familiar with such work.

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~simkat/publications.html

(1) There is that bias in the way the question is being framed, but at least at this stage they're being pretty clear about the alternatives. The danger, of course, is that the big scientific question which the strong evidence for crustal dilation presents will not be squarely addressed, but will ...

Scientists suggest new evidence that zones of crustal compensation may exist on Europa. Otherwise the pervasive zones in which crustal dilation is evident, and geologically recent, would imply expansion of this moon of Jupiter.

See story here.

Here's an excellent discussion of this new evidence, elucidating for a more general audience the inference that linear dike-like structures, distributed isotropically around the lunar surface, may indicate some post-formation expansion early in the Moon's history.

http://www.planetary.org/blogs ...

I copy my recent series of responses to Enginmaster on "Expanding Earth My Ass" directly below, followed by a more complete (still with much extraneous stuff deleted) sample of the discussion that has gone on there, regarding the tendency to neglect the actual grounds on which expansion has been ...