Earth Expansion - Synoptic simplicity

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Plate Tectonics agrees with closure for the Atlantic, Indian and Southern Oceans. The Pacific however presents Plate Tectonics with something of a special difficulty because if the Pacific closes (and taking into account the young age of the ocean floors) then it axiomatically follows that the Earth has got bigger.  "Subduction!!" , ...you can hear them howl, can't you... (press their buttons and hear them squeak..).  Well, ..we won't divert from the point of this post when we've hardly started.  The arguments against subduction are many (click the 'nonsense' link at the top of any page).  The whole site is an objection to subduction.

The reason Plate Tectonics can skirt this special difficulty is because the scale of dilation dwarfs that of the other oceans and makes closure more difficult to see.

Does the Pacific close? I think it does. The following images from the above-linked site show how I think it happened. However demonstrating closure in sufficient detail to satisfy others will likely be a long time coming given the survival of Plate Tectonics since it was first floated half a century ago.  We need to return to the geological path signalled by Wegener, and jettison *ALL* of Plate Tectonic theory, which is framed essentially around failure to understand a mechanism for the sudden and rapid breakout of the mantle bubble that caused the global enlargement we see today, manifest in the creation of the ocean floors.

Given the monolithic consensus in support of that model, and the powerful interests vested in exclusion of Earth expansion, it may be safely predicted that no funds will be allocated to this enterprise. Posting here is designed to raise public awareness, and to encourage a critical reappraisal of establishment views.

Expansion - Synoptic simplicity. Here's how:-
(Detail available from the above-linked site)

Fig.1 Pangaea as it appears today. Extrusion of a massive mantle bubble (to give the ocean floors) split the Earth's crust along the Pangaean equator (white lines). The high ground (the circum-Pacific mountain belts, extending to the Himalayas and the Mediterranean) marks the remnant oblateness of the planet. The split elements have moved north and south to accommodate Pacific extrusion.  This means for example, that the dinosaur bone beds of Alaska correlate with those of Antarctica, and both were once equatorial in the region of China. (We might also speculate about inherited genetic memory of bird migration in the Pacific, which is also largely north - south.)  Indian - Southern Ocean extrusions are the 'tail' of Pacific extrusion.  Atlantic extrusion followed later. Close it in your mind's eye for a better picture. (Gets tricky, doesn't it, ..on a flat map..)

Fig.2.  How it happened - Pangaea dilated by Pacific extrusion (red bubble). The hemispheres shown are spherical for graphical simplicity (they should be oblate). The remnant oblateness (today's mountain belts) encircles the perimeters of the grey hemispheres, extending to the Mediterranean (hinge of opening).. Also shown is ninety degrees of rotational dislocation as the hemispheres pivoted apart.

The elevated region we call the mountain belt (outlined in Fig.1) is a combination of preserved equatorial oblateness of a faster rotating Earth in Mesozoic times, and the roof of mantle breakthrough opposite the Mediterranean hinge. The folding that occurs in this zone of elevation is simply due to gravitational collapse of both elevations adjusting to the increasing size of the Earth.

Fig.3  The Pacific mantle bubble (gravity map).  The red bubble in Fig.1 occupies the centre of the raised area. White arrows (schematic) represent crustal lag.

Movement picture:-  

Like a coconut splitting in half, the Pangaean Earth fractured around its equator to allow the extrusion of a massive mantle bubble (red) from a region close to the Earth's outer core (mantle not properly formed).  Breakout was focussed in the Indonesian - South China Sea region.  As the bubble grew to its full dimension the crustal hemispheres yawned hugely apart about a hinge extending from the Mediterranean to the Himalayas, carrying with them the residual rotations of the smaller Pangaean Earth.  Thus partitioned and dilating, the Earth's crust was subject to three independent rotations which steered crustal adjustment and mantle growth.  The most apparent expression of independence was to advance the southern hemisphere (or more likely retard the northern hemisphere - because there is more continental mass) approximately ninety degrees.

The equatorial split on the eastern side of the bubble swivelled open the Americas by a hundred and eighty degrees, eventually unhinging their pivot in the Caribbean region and separating them by the extents of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.  The western equatorial split only partly opened,  as the Tarim Basin separating the Tibetan Plateau (south) from the Mongolian Highlands (north), and is the near-closed equivalent of the dilated Americas' on the eastern side of the Pacific.  In the south, the bubble ruptured to detach Antarctica from the Americas.

The collapsed crustal roof of the bubble remains in the Indonesian region, its scissored-open remnants (the equivalent of American swivelling) extending along the entire Western Pacific margin to the Russian Peninsula in a series of arcuate listric detachments.

With the Earth enlarged to nearly twice its original size and the force of Pacific extrusion nearly spent, the slowing Earth ('skater' analogy) then dilated on a longitudinal line pivoted at the North Pole to allow passive extrusion of the Atlantic.  Westwards drift of the crust due to inertial drag, followed.

The basic picture of Earth expansion is then one of transition from latitudinal (equatorial) dilation (which appears to have been rapid during a time of faster rotation of the Earth - when the Earth was more oblate) to longitudinal dilation (slower), in response to rotation. The cause is not known but once initiated, breakout appears to have been extremely rapid (in geological terms).

This construction differs in several respects from that of Carey (and others to date), the most important being recognition of the early opening of the Pacific as essentially equatorial.

Fig.4.  Today's earthquakes are the continuing legacy of that event.

The thick belt of black dots encircling the Pacific and extending to the Mediterranean shows all the earthquakes since records began, and represents a band around the lip of the Pangaean  hemispheres (grey) in Fig.2  in contact with the red bubble of mantle extrusion.  Retrofit the later extrusion of the Atlantic in order to get a better picture of circum-Pacific continuity in relation to the Mediterranean hinge. The Indian and Southern Oceans represent the growth to the present day of breakout from the initial rupture in the Indonesian region.

(See the referenced site in the header for supporting detail, and why Plate Tectonics cannot work - an essential caution for those teaching school curricula, those learning it, and those researching that model.) (Plate Tectonics is false. That's it.)

Fig.5.  Plate Tectonics' flat map construction.  (By flat Earthers, ..for Flat Earthers.)  Plate Tectonics is for strugglers doing the jigsaw without looking at the picture on the front of the box !!  (And not managing very well - despite awarding themselves prizes for effort thus far.)  We should indulge them this fancy however without too much criticism, since they probably never got to play with their food when small... (Soup for convection, ..cornflakes for plates, ..tablecloths for crumpling..  ... )

[ See also - Debunking Plate Tectonics - at :-
http://www.platetectonicsbiglie.blogspot.com/