Thursday, January 18, 2018

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Tracking the change
( ..  from Plate Tectonics to Earth expansion .. )


Below is a screenshot of a page posted to my old website back in early-mid 2004, noting an attempt by Plate Tectonics to turn transform faults into subduction zones [by a Hey Presto & abracadabra !].  You can read that publication here  (reposted on the web after a considerable time behind a paywall).

A collection of pages posted on my old website at the time under the rubric of "The Big Rip", detailing the structural evolution of the Western Pacific margin and the separation of the Americas from Asia, compiled some key observations (by me) leading to my recognising Earth Expansion.
 
I did wonder (then) if that publication might be an example of appropriation of those observations (perhaps even with the intention of staking a claim to Earth Expansion), since the structural evolution of that margin was (for me) fundamental to recognising expansion. At the time, I was writing a promo for my 'book' (e-book) first edition).  There was absolutely nothing on the web along similar lines.  So when that publication popped up advocating transforms evolving to subduction zones  (and further to the wholesale equatorial opening of the crust (which was the central thesis of my site) I did think (I did, so I did) (as one does) .. "Oh-ho, .. what have we 'ere",.. ?? 

So here we are, nearly two decades on since those pages appeared (and a year after I have taken my site down - service provider no longer supported) and the Big Ship Plate Tectonics is still celebrating half a century of business-as-usual.  Apparently something in that publication (whatever it was) didn't work, despite the claim made in it (with which I would agree) that that "something" ..
".. promised to be exciting and fruitful areas of future research."
However we do differ as to what that 'something' exactly is.  As readers will know, I'm not big on subduction (in fact I think it is a woeful example of wilful ignorance and a con-job all at once).  And Plate Tectonics is not big on transform faults.  In fact according to Fred Vine commenting on convection (link)(in Menard, 1986) Plate Tectonics would be a whole lot better off without them, predicated as it is on just creation and destruction of ocean floors, and "moving" (and "moving past") is crass misrepresentation of what is actually happening. So between us, let's see where this goes.

Here's "the page" (it's a screenshot)  (I see it drops the capitalised "blinking text") (I must have caught it on the blink).  It says :" The observation  of a  ** TRANSITION  FROM LATITUDINAL TO LONGITUDINAL  OPENING**  has no place in plate tectonics, but is the CENTRAL THEME of this  site,")  :-



Monday, December 18, 2017

HHH

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"This is the Horse and the Hound and the Horn.."   
       ( .. that helped the farmer sowing his corn .. )



The Four Pillars of Earth Expansion

Meet the Gang
The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse
(coming soon to a venue near you.)



Boudicca-the-Nutcracker - The Big Yin (gravity).
Seriously, .. what you see is what you get (and bow-wow-how!).

Sukiyaki-the-Beef (shape)
 Can get in a stew.  Not really a party-girl.

Mata Hari-the-seductress (Jouissance), .
Bustin' out all over. Easy sheila for fun times.

Sufi-the-whirling-temptress (spin) (and a bit unhinged).
 "Catch me if you can".


Revision / first edition /indigo website, 2001-2016.  Back on track with the road less travelled, from the junction where Arthur Holmes struck out serendipitously for Shangri La, and encountered instead the Dark Lord - the conundrum of mountain building - namely erosion and the making of valleys.

" Leapin' listrics!"
https://earthexpansion.blogspot.com/2017/12/this-is-malt_1.html
"One ring to find them, One ring to bring them, One ring to rule them all, .. and in the Darkness bind them."
" On planet Earth where the shadows lie"


Listric faults :=: (File, elements) (suki & sufi)


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Saturday, December 9, 2017

"This is the farmer sowing his corn ..

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Before the rooster that crowed in the morn ..
 ( .. was up.. )



Fig.1.  Volcanoes ("The only mountains that get built" ) .. Testifying to the different equilibrium conditions between sea level (as a proxy for zero erosional potential of the crust) and the mantle.

1. Earth Expansion 
"Planet Earth, A Question of Expansion."
(Youtube, posted Aug. 24th, 2017)
335 views 20171206



  2.  Plate Tectonics  
 "The day the Earth moved"
(BBC Discovery Channel, broadcast 8th January, 2018)
(As told by the main players - posted here 20180603)





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"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 .. )


"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.
 


 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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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

"This is the judge all shaven and shorn"

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





                    .. 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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Monday, December 4, 2017

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

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


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 ..  )



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.  .. )


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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