( .. My part in the downfall of Plate Tectonics .. )
Fig. 1. Who remembers Lemuria? Action Lady, Queen of the Continent that never was, is about to throw the Big Switch and create the ridge displacements of the ocean floor, which will let the Plate Tectonic genie out of the bottle.
(...The pinnafore ... .. just in case she needs the kitchen. )
(.. The bazookas? ... ... Ask Madonna.)
Fashions various :-
"Geologists, like other people are susceptible to fads. Although most geologists believe plate tectonics is an exciting theory and accept it as a working model of the earth, the theory may or may not be correct. Most geologists today believe that plates exist and move. But widespread belief in a theory does not make it true. Two hundred years ago geologist "knew" that basalt crystallised out of sea water. In the 1800s glacial deposits were thought to be deposited by Noah's flood. Both of these incorrect ideas were finally disproved by decades of exacting field work and often bitter debate." [ 1 ] [ 2 ].
" Forty years ago continental drift rated only a footnote in most introductory textbooks. Now there are many believers in continental motion and text books use it as a framework for the entire field of physical geology. Although the idea of continental stability provided the framework for many past textbooks, today the idea that continents are fixed in position rates only a footnote as an outmoded concept. [link lost; (find another. There are lots similar.)] [Interesting wordsearch checklink dates April 2018]
On Continental Drift:-
"...Utter, damned rot!" said the president of the prestigious American Philosophical Society.
"....If we are to believe [this] hypothesis, we must forget everything we have learned in the last 70 years and start all over again," said another American scientist.
"...Anyone who "valued his reputation for scientific sanity" would never dare support such a theory", said a British geologist.
"Thus did most in the scientific community ridicule the concept that would revolutionize the earth sciences and revile the man who dared to propose it, German meteorological pioneer and polar explorer Alfred Wegener. Science historians compare his story with the tribulations of Galileo." http://www.pangaea.org/wegener.htm
"...Utter, damned rot!" said the president of the prestigious American Philosophical Society.
"....If we are to believe [this] hypothesis, we must forget everything we have learned in the last 70 years and start all over again," said another American scientist.
"...Anyone who "valued his reputation for scientific sanity" would never dare support such a theory", said a British geologist.
"Thus did most in the scientific community ridicule the concept that would revolutionize the earth sciences and revile the man who dared to propose it, German meteorological pioneer and polar explorer Alfred Wegener. Science historians compare his story with the tribulations of Galileo." http://www.pangaea.org/wegener.htm
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