"This is the rooster that crowed in the morn ..

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Namely me (and some others)
( ..  who woke the judge all shaven and shorn .. )

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"First, in order to make an important discovery in science, it is essential to be in the right place at the right time."  [Jack Oliver, in Oreskes, 2001, p.162 talking about his experience, and the  development of Plate Tectonics.]

Fig.1.  Selfie :=: 1968 ("When I wore a younger man's clothes"). Memory Lane - Morrison and me. Early morning, tide out, meeting Morrison and William departing Durness for Dornoch. [Morrison's pal, William, with an eye for a picture, took the shot. (Looking southwest along the Kyle of Durness.)]

My hopeful contribution to the downfall of Plate Tectonics lies in recognising two things :-

1. The importance of boudinage structure as a control on the location and formation of ore deposits (identifying areas that are more likely to be mineralised than others).
2. Its use at crustal scales as a framework for understanding global deformation.

1967 (Memory Lane)
(2017 = 50th anniversary of Plate Tectonics)

 

 Fig.3.  Beginning at the beginning :=: right time, right place.  (My very nice thesis area; Rispond, Durness, Northwest Scotland.)

<  e-book first edition under revision >

=> (Selfie => )

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"This is the judge all shaven and shorn"

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The reasonable man /woman
( .. namely you .. ) 

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                    .. You judge.                               Image: Tangible Earth,Photo: Yuriko Nakao/ Reuters

BECAUSE the point of all this commentary on the dichotomy between Earth expansion and Plate Tectonics (now there is such a thing as the internet) is to open up the conversation.

1. Jack Oliver's Eureka Moment.                    (hold)
2. 'Slabmen and the new Global Tectonics     (hold)



("From the taffeta booth") 
http://tinyurl.com/y6zupomk

https://twitter.com/GeologyPage/status/1109877540372574208

Image: Tangible Earth,Photo: Yuriko Nakao/ Reuters

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"This is the man all tattered and torn .. "

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(Dudes without duds .. )
( .. "That kissed the maidens all forlorn .."

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And the rest is history (/ postmodern obscurantism).

Fig.1.  Dudes without duds do the roadshow, showing how (on one leg) (the PT-hop)(/one-step).

1.  50 Years Anniversary of P.T.
2   Uggh!
3.  Against subduction: (The Trilogy)

Slab tectonics
Jack Oliver's Eureka moment
Slabmen and the New Global Tectonics

4.  "Are you being served?"
5.  Tracking the change.
     Screenshot - "How subduction zones form"
     "Romancing the Stone".

6.  https://phys.org/news/2019-06-seismologist-discovery-plate-tectonics.html
7.  https://twitter.com/earthexpansion/status/1227003812180742145



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"This is the dog that (tried to) worry the cat "

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Subduction, the convenient assumption 
 ( .. a.k.a - the Big 'FUDJ' ..) (.. the con ..) (.. the F*'d-up dog-job ..  )

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Plate Tectonics' central pillar
"Keep the facts in the dark and just go with the theory"

Fig.1.  Plate Tectonics' central pillar - the gratuitous assumption of subduction.  Ringing the Pacific and extending to the Mediterranean, earthquakes highlight the zone of deep faults along which so-called 'plates' are said to return to the deep mantle..  [Credit:SPL/mediadrumworld.com]

The medium is the message :=: In which Plate Tectonics is taken to task for blacking out the facts in order to convey the message that they are subordinate to hypothesis and a claim of brilliance, 

Read more ....

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"This is the maiden all forlorn .. "

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( " .. This is the maiden all forlorn .." )

".. That got screwed by the Pied Piper .."
( .. + dogs /cats /rats etc.  .. )

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Chomolungma :-: "Goddess Mother of Mountains,"
or Sagarmatha :-:  “Forehead in the Sky”
or Everest :-:  Peak-15
(Gender disconnect and western patriarchal rebranding.  Just thought I'd mention it.)

Fig.1 ("Holy Cow!") Mountains *not* formed by the collision of plates.  The towering, cool beauty of the Goddess Chomolungma, the Ice Queen, Rock of Ages (Ordovician), chiselled to a peak and thus a poor shadow of her former self.  Gloriously symbolic of Penelope Public & Sophie More getting taken for a ride by the Pied Piper (and not even getting value for money).

Gloria, Penny and Sophie, ... didn't get very far before being waylaid, did they?  Class action coming up.  ('Class', .. 'class', .. 'class')

Or 'crass'? ...Everything about why mountain *BUILDING* is silly.

1.  Princess
2.  Mts index -5m press
3.  Golems
4.  Mts var.
5.  Gearthvar
6   + catalogued
7.  Conclusion /proclaimers.


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A climber's perspective   ..

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"This is the cat that killed the rat .. "

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'Whalebacks'
( .. of oceanic crust as gap-fill between continental fragments .. )

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Hoisting Plate Tectonics on its own petard :=:Ocean floors are essentially *symmetrical* about the spreading ridge. The implications for Plate Tectonics are fatal.

'Plates on the left, .. 'whalebacks' of mantle filling the gap of continental displacement on the right.   ("A plate with a crack in it is One PLATE!").

Where the dichotomy between Plate Tectonics and Earth expansion begins. And finishes.  Almost no need to say more.

(Saying more .. )

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