The Case Against Pangaea 
  
An Expanding Earth Perspective
 By Neal Adams  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
First it’s important to understand that this    is the most profound disagreement in all of science in a century and a  half -   and, even so, it is the tip of the iceberg; the ramifications  of this   disagreement will change   everything we know in science, top to bottom.
 
To begin with basic stuff all science knows -   
The earth has two    crusts. One: the mostly basalt lower crust or the oceanic crust which  is 2 –   4 miles deeper down than the higher upper continental crust.  This lower crust   essentially covers the Earth. This crust is being  made daily at rift cracks  that snake around the   earth’s mid-oceans. But how could all these  rifts continually spread apart without   the Earth growing? That is the   question, 
 
Secondly: sitting on   or “in” and “as part of” the oceanic crust is   the second higher upper crust or the continental   crust, rising for the most part out of the water. It is made   mostly of granitic rock, which is 2.5 times the weight of water. 
 
Some  edge area of the continental crust or plate dips into   and under the  sea level of the ocean. This area is what we call the   continental  shelf. So as you go out into the ocean the water gradually gets deeper.    That  is the   continental shelf. At a given distance out into the ocean the  ocean floor   suddenly drops off and goes down like a plummeting stone -  2 ½ to 4 miles to   the deep ocean floor, where we find the second  lower crust, the oceanic crust   made mostly of basalts which are 3.0 –  3.3 times the weight of water.  
 
So  to make it visually clear, if you took the water away   what you would  see as you go out into the ocean a distance is that the   continental  shelf would suddenly drop away and down like a ridge in Arizona - except  it   would go straight down for two to three miles, as if it was  suddenly broken   off. The other side of that broken off ridge is  thousands of miles across the   ocean in Europe or Africa and west to  Australia   and Asia. 
 
How did the two sides of this higher crust spread apart? 
 
Rifts  or eruptive cracks in the ocean floor provide new   material in the  form of molten magmatic rock that rises up at a rift area where   the  oceanic plate spreads apart. The two sides move away from each other    smoothly and regularly, and so the continents welded within the oceanic    plates also move apart  as   the ocean bottom spreads. Now if this happens - and it does, all  over the   world - logically speaking, this Earth must grow. 
 
I  argue that this outer crust originally covered the whole   of a smaller  Earth and the Earth sphere grew. The outer crust, therefore, had   to  crack and spread to accommodate a growing Earth, which it apparently  did. 
 
We  further argue that if you were to shrink the sphere of   Earth by  letting the oceanic plate re-enter the rifts they erupted from, over    time the continental crust would easily and completely fit back  together. This  solution satisfies all questions of tectonics,   science, geology,  paleontology, theoretical and practical physics, cosmology,   and  subatomic physics. Pretty simple actually. 
 
Against  this is the current Pangaea theory which insists that   the continents  float willy nilly about the Earth, spinning, sliding, bumping   and  crashing like bumper cars in a carnival (That’s a common description    which some geologists are currently backing away from, in small  numbers). The Pangaea theory   says the Earth was assembled 4.5 billion  years ago, virtually in a “universal   instant” from debris that was  collected in our galaxy, to this  current size (by a method   that is never explained). The idea that  this assembly of material mysteriously   ended at exactly this time and  didn’t continue is illogical. Sometime in the   previous 9 billion  years, this stuff collected. Yet, for the last 4.5 billion   years no  new stuff collected, according to our 150 year old theory. How can    that be?  
 
We  are told this material is ‘star stuff’ from novas or   supernovas. If  this wasn’t presented seriously, it would be funny. Why? 
 
We are told meteorites, comets and asteroids are left over   material from this time, only less   is going around now. Less than   the Shoemaker-Levy planet killers that struck Jupiter? Twenty-one of them? A   billion years ago they were bigger.   But meteorites aren’t loosely assembled. They’re solid. Some are solid   unrustable iron! This from   a supernova? Gigantic meteorites floating around, waiting for gravity to come   along? 
 
Let’s clear some thing up. The only kind  of meteorites that we’ve   identified to be 4.5 billion years old are  chondrite meteorites. Chondrite   meteorites are assembled from mineral  dust and pencil tip-tiny meteorites   called chondrules. More  importantly, chondrite   meteorites cannot assemble or accrete on   a gravitational body like a planet or a sun! So where did they come from?   Where did all the other meteorites come from? 
 
Contradiction upon contradiction. It’s all wrong as theory.   It’s an old outworn theory and it contradicts itself. 
 
Geologists then say that once assembled into planets, moons, and suns this   activity gave us a molten (from all the friction of assembly) differentiated  Earth.   Differentiated, like in a caldron; melted, in that the  lightest material rose   to the surface - which was presumably granitic  rock - then down to basalts, then   heavier silicates. At the bottom, or  core, you have iron and the heavier   elements. 
 
Let  us say we accepted this whole wrong scenario; The   Earth is finished  cooking and cools with time. The Earth must then be coated   completely  by a 2 – 4 mile crust of light granitic rock, and under that we   find  basalts. 
 
Comparing that    to today’s world we find an Earth that merely has pieces of this  granitic   crust. We went from an Earth completely covered with a  relatively thick outer   crust of granitic rock to a few scattered  pieces that we call continents. Where is the rest of the crust? 
 
The  only time geologists admit that massive crust is gone   is when they  come up with theories like the one where a rogue planet comes    barreling through space and grazes Earth and rips off a massive chunk or    “peels off the crust” - that’s one of my favorites - and deposits it  in orbit   to be our moon. Unlike    all the other moons in our solar system, which were made by what?  Other rogue   planets? Ming the Merciless? Rogue planets? This is  fantasy. 
 
Added together these continental upper plate areas  cover between only   one third to one quarter of the Earth. Where is  the rest of the outer crust?   Three quarters of it seems to be missing.  It has to be somewhere, this much   stuff can’t disappear. If we got it  back it would give us four times the   continental surface   and mass than we   have now! 
 
I think the continental crust is the whole crust of a   smaller Earth. In fact, it all does fit together on a smaller Earth. 
 
Granitic rock cannot subduct as geologists insist oceanic   plates do, because it’s too light. This is fact! 
 
This  alone   disproves the Pangaea theory! Granitic rock cannot subduct.  Yet, three   quarters - twenty one continents’ worth - is gone! Simply  gone. No   explanation! 
I  say this: Earth was progressively smaller as we go back   in time. Over  4–5 billion years it grew from a small planetesimal to a planet   the  size of Mars. The speed of growth increased exponentially. The heat  under   the crust increased as it grew and the thin crust cracked more  profoundly 2–4   miles deep, and over the final 200 million years rifted  the ocean to reveal a   new deeper basalt plate until we have the Earth  we see today. 
 
An  aside….you may fairly ask how this matter can be   created. It’s  created at the plasma core of all planets, moons, and suns by a    process that is so common that science has a name for it, “pair  production!”   It’s how all matter is made from energy. 
 
 
Pangaeaists insist against all reasonable symmetries  that all the continents moved to one side of Earth about 600   million  years ago, (pick your own time, it’s all a “guessing game”). They    gathered together on one side of the Earth and for some unexplained  reason   stayed on that side for 400 million to 600 million years…  
 
Then  in an desperate attempt to explain the clear fact   that all the  continents fit perfectly together geologists say that in some   magical other  unnamed   time, and for some unnamed reason, all the continents,    once-upon-a-previous-fictional-made-up-time, gathered and connected in  the Pacific,  again, into one giant   island that they named Rodinia. The continents  gathered to form Rodinia in   the Pacific, then broke apart and zipped  around the planet to gather, and   then form Pangaea in the Atlantic!  You can   see why timing is everything   in this. How could the two giant   islands exist at the same time?  
 
I  cannot explain what intellectual terror prevents science   from the  obvious conclusion that Rodinia and Pangaea happened at the same   time  on a smaller Earth. This, in the face of facts that the ocean floor in    all oceans of the world is the same progressive age and none  of it, none, is older than   180 million years. Apparently it’s easier  to believe that continents travel   around the planet than it is to  consider that the Earth grew. 
 
Back to Pangaea then: For no explainable reason, this Pangaea   island broke in half, and   one half rode to and over  the   South Pole, and the other half rode to and over the North Pole  over a period   of about 60 million years. Once there they inexplicably  broke up again and   spread around the Earth and the poles, and the  pieces are currently riding   toward each other north to south to  eventually crash back together in the middle.   No, not east to west. Simply north to south. 
 
So  it’s Rodinia, Pangaea, Gondwana, and Laurasia. Then   Asia, Africa,  North America, South America, Australia, Europe and Antarctica.   And  now back to crash together. I say this is ludicrous and scientifically    impossible. 
 
These  conclusions defy reason and common sense. Scientifically   they have no  basis in fact; it’s only theory that gets stronger every year!    Granitic rock and basalt is, on average, three times  heavier than water. Let’s suppose Pangaea   is on one side of the Earth  as the Pangaeaists say. Let’s add that if today   we can say the land  masses rise, on average, half mile above sea level that   equals a mile  and a half of water - then the Pangaea side of Earth is four and one half times heavier than the water side!... 
 
This  is not quantum physics here, it’s simple. You learn   this kind of math  in grade school. This is undeniable and clear. Pangaea   could not have   existed as described. 
 
3.  Pangaeaists insist that the concept of subduction disproves   a growing  Earth because, they say, the oceanic plate subducts, or dives under    the continental plate, on a sort of conveyor belt that carries crust  down and   under to somehow join the plastic material below. At a moment  of discovery in   1964, Kiyoo Wadati and Hugo Benioff discovered a  chunk of oceanic plate   angling downward just east of the island    of  Tonga in the South   Pacific trench area. With some relief they and  others announced that this “subduction”   principle alone explained the  apparent disappearance of excess crustal   material of Earth. This view  was enhanced and supported by the appearance and   extent of the  undersea trenches around what became known as the “Ring of   Fire.” A  volcanic arch of island and trench areas around the western pacific,    but far from the continental plate. 
 
The  world of science, and specifically geology, breathed a   collective  sigh of relief that the growing Earth theory proposed by the   brilliant  geologist, Professor Samuel Warren Carey of Australia, was not true  and no longer would   science have to deal with the possibility of a  growing Earth and its   ramifications, and their… old theory of a  constant size Earth was secure -   along with the nonsensical theory  that Earth and the solar system coalesced   4.5 billion years ago out of  what they call “star stuff.”  
 
Our  secondary goal is to completely and utterly rid ourselves   of this old  unrealistic, simplistic and wrong theory of solar system   assembly. A  theory that insults intelligence and the facts of “real science,”   born  of ignorance and desperation long ago by intelligent yet time-ignorant    men. 150 years is a very long time and this theory has served its  purpose;   time to fix it. 
 
So what, in fact, is subduction, and what is it not? 
 
First: Continents do not subduct under other continents as   originally proposed! Geology has come to slowly agree with this. We  know   this for many reasons, the most important being that the  granitic rock of the   continents cannot subduct because it is too light  to do so. 
Continents sit on and in oceanic plates like cups welded to growing, spreading plates. A continent is   not capable of independent movement or   growth; their function is done.   They may crack apart if rifting dictates, but only the lower oceanic plates   gain new edges and grow outward. 
 
Secondly:  Subduction and tectonic movement was originally   proposed to be fueled  by the convection (roiling and boiling) of an ocean of   molten rock  under the crust of the Earth, like a pot of boiling water on a   stove. It  is now known (discovered by seismic scanning) that only 4% of   the  asthenosphere (under the crust) is molten and most of that, if not all,    is located under the rifts. Some is under volcanic areas, to be sure,  but   they are the exception that proves the rule. 
 
The concept of convection has been altered into near   disuse because of this recent discovery. Because convection requires the heat   to be under the    bottom of the pot little survives of the stubborn convection concept.  Superheated   gases rise to the highest areas under the crust and  collect there. 
 
This creates a problem. If new material erupts from the   rifts to the new sea floor where does this new material come from? What space inside the Earth is   being emptied out to provide this new   stuff? There’s no convection conveyor belt to bring up new   material. 
 
Third: And quite telling; there is no evidence even that   oceanic plates subduct under the actual   continental plates at all!    Is this a surprise to you? Nothing of the sort has been seen. In  fact, the   concept is nearly impossible to actually imagine based on  facts. The   continents, themselves, are plus or minus 30 to 40 miles  thick! The oceanic   plates are only 4 to 5 miles thick. The continents  are not only solid and 35   miles thick, they become part of the  increasingly dense asthenosphere beneath,   making it solid merging into  solid - in other words a total barrier to subducting   plates. Not exactly what you have been led to believe, is it? 
 
Some may think that what I’m saying contradicts the   observed truth - that   the Ring of Fire and the trenches you have heard about are up against the   continents. They are not!  They   are, in fact, on average, hundreds of miles from continents (see  for yourself   - hardly like the drawings they show in books is it?)  Subduction zones and   trenches generally line the edges of newly  created volcanic islands. In fact,   this is exactly what we see; trenches   pushing down alongside volcanic islands that are pushing upwards! The continents play no part in this process.   The continents are too thick and old to enter! 
 
Let us consider; away from the continents we find volcanic   island chains pushing   upward out of the oceans, and right next to these volcanic islands we find   trenches, which indicate subduction or pushing   down. Sort of makes sense, doesn’t it? 
 
Even geologists say these two phenomena are directly related. Isn’t this folding under pressure? If we say   the Earth is growing and we point to uneven    growth from rifting and spreading, it is reasonable to assume great  pressures   from this growth are being applied - and not evenly, and  regularly,   everywhere. 
 
So along some edges compression and folding are reasonable   and logical, especially where there’s little or no rifting. On the upper surface of   the continental plates   compression results in folding and mountain building. In fact, compared to mountain building subduction   and volcanic islands are new - only just beginning. 
 
So, instead of a conveyor belt we simply have some   compression and folding. 
Let’s look at the Western Pacific. Here along  the western side is the Ring of Fire, way out in the ocean.   Next is a  chain of volcanic islands. These, like Hawaii, are pushed up high as if    compressed and folded because the ocean bottom pushes against them.  As proof   we have these trenches; evidence of new   folding downward. 
 
 
There is a vast expanse on our moon called Valles Ibrium.  This, like the western   pacific, is receiving outward pressure and  holding pressure from nearby   spreads. Can you see how the crater’s  edges are dealing with the pressure by   collapsing and folding?   This is similar to the Ring of Fire folding edges. 
 
While  you hold that in your mind let’s look at another   phenomenon. Geology  tells you that mountains are created by continents   bumping and  crashing into each other. A preposterous idea. The fact   is most, if not all, of the mountains on Earth were created since 200 million   years ago, and most of them are 60   million years old and younger. 
The Rockies are under 60   million. The Andes are under 60 million. And the   massive Himalayas are under 60 million years   old. During all the ages   of dinosaurs there were   literally no mountains. Please let that sink in.   They told you differently? There is folded land and theories, but no true   mountains from continental crashes after all. 
 
Keeping that thought carefully now, Pangaea stayed whole  for 300 million years and   only then broke apart. Where is the bumping  and crashing that made the mountains   if it stayed whole? One island.  How did we get mountains with no crashing? 
 
Here is how the mountains are really made and why they are   so young. 
 
  
The Earth is   growing 
If the skin of the growing Earth is stretched  as the Earth grows a hair’s breadth per year the cool dry crust   will  stretch, crack and repair, and in time gently slide apart  undramatically.   Cracks will appear and slide apart and water will  settle in these shallow   spread areas. But three things happen. 
 
One: with added growth the heat from this growth increases under the crust. 
Two: the crust thickens. 
 
Three: the growth of the Earth increases exponentially. 
 
Let me remind you that a growing sphere changes its   geometry. Its surface re-curves to a flatter surface. If that   surface stretches like a balloon to a bigger size, this recurving is made up   by stretching. 
 
But  if any section holds its shape and the edges crack and rift   down to a  deeper level - a plastic lower level that can continue to stretch -    then the upper piece is broken free, sitting on the surface; like a  continent   now broken free it no longer stretches   to flatten out. 
That  separate surface of continental plate sits unstretched   on a sphere  that is continuing to get bigger and to recurve flatter. The   curvature of that continent is no longer the same as the sphere so it must   somehow flatten out. Recurve. 
 
But remember, as crust it has now thickened to 20 -30 miles. 200   million years ago it was only 4–5 miles thick; now it’s at least 20 miles   thick. As it recurves the edges crack and split (into bays and inlets and under sea “V’s” form and the   upper surface of the main body wrinkles and folds into mountains. This is   how we get nearly all our mountains. 
 
The  Andes are a unique   case. South America lies east of the most    profound and rapidly growing rift area on Earth. The pressure of this  growing   rift against South America prevents    South America from flattening out easily.   This pressure drives a  trench along South America’s   coast as a barrier to westward movement,  like on the moon. The  edge of South America folds more profoundly, like waves against   a  barrier it cannot pass. No other place on Earth is quite like this. 
 
Now let us look at the western pacific. The    western Pacific has no rifting to speak of. Yet rifting is all over  the rest   of the planet, spreading and holding the western pacific in a  circular vice. 
 
The  world rifts and grows all around the un-growing   Pacific creating  vice-like pressure. All areas push in multiplying pressure.   Now the  Earth re-curves. The oceanic plate in the western pacific, is pushed upon  around the edges and also pushed   down by the recurve. Volcanic  islands rise up, outward, not near the super   thick continents but  outward in the ocean creating a ring of pressure - a   ring of fire. 
 
Like mountain building this folding has only happened in   the last 30 – 60 million years. A phenomenon; yes. A conveyor belt; nonsense! 
 
We are not floating    on a sea of magma. Certain areas are folding up and down under the  pressure   of Earth’s growth. That’s all. We have examined descending  slabs seismically.   There are some descending slabs, but not the whole  ocean floor descending for   hundreds of millions of years. In the last  200 million years are there enough   slabs to account for 2/3rds of the  old ocean from all directions? Of course   not! It’s nonsense - we’d see  it clearly if it happened. The Antarctic Ocean   completely surrounds  Antarctica. It’s as big   as the Atlantic Ocean and it encircles  Antarctica.   It has no subduction to eat up its ocean floor, which is  only about 60   million years old. No subduction!   How then can it grow? It grows because the Earth grows! 
 
We are told by geology that the southern continents are   traveling upward to join the descending northern continents. For this   to be so, the oceanic plates must be subducting in the middle some where. Search with me to find   a subducting trench or any sign that the two sides are moving towards each   other. Nope, nothing - but that can’t be true. The whole Pangaea   concept rests on this theory. 
 
Let’s  examine this more closely. The northern and southern   continents that  they named Gondwana and Laurasia supposedly pulled apart and   went over  the poles and separated. The northern continent split in two. The    southern continent broke into 4 continents.  
It is not possible for North America to join with South America   exactly at Panama. Similarly,   Africa could not join Eurasia at exactly the same place that it split away.   There is no way to justify this.  
 
Pangaea:  The first proof - how South America fits   perfectly into Africa. Easy  enough to   recognise . They said a child could see it. But here’s the  thing. It’s not true. 
 
If you settle South America to Africa,   in the north there is a 25 degree split between the two. They do not fit! If you try to fit   downward coasts, there is a 25 degree split at the top. There is   only one way these two continents will fit together properly. 
 
If you make a   globe 50% smaller and re-curve these two continents on to that globe they fit   perfectly! 
 
In  fact geologists will tell you that South America’s tail   wrapped under  Africa. This story is recorded   in the undersea geology for anyone to  see. Both Antarctica and South America   have tails that pulled apart  from under Africa. 
 
Now watch what happens when we put these on a smaller   globe. 
  
 
Geologists tell you in books and on television  that India   was once attached to Africa. That for some   reason and at  a mysterious time India   tore off Africa; it rode up the Indian Ocean  and slowly, inexorably crashed   into Asia. It proceeded to push so hard    against Eurasia they say that it piled up the Himalayas   - the  greatest mountain range on Earth. This little peninsula - India -  crushed Eurasia? 
 
 Let’s get the rules straight: Continents don’t move. Only   the oceanic plate that they sit in moves. In order for India to crash into Eurasia India’s oceanic plate would have to subduct   under Eurasia. But we have established that   oceanic plates cannot subduct under   a continental plate because a continental plate is well over 30 miles thick.   This halts the process. It can’t happen. 
Let’s  imagine there’s no leading plate edge on the Indian   northern edge  (which would be impossible). Say we can shove India up against Eurasia -  it would then stop   or become part of Eurasia, like Europe. Why    would it crumple up mountains? Even worse, these mountains were made  only 30-50   million years ago. When did India   “crash” into Eurasia,  while the southern   continents were a further 2000 miles to the south?  That’s where the southern   continents were 50 million years ago. Or  while 4 continents were at the South   Pole did India   independently  voyage north for 2500 miles? All by itself? 
 
So,  let’s say India   fused together with Eurasia. How does one   peninsula  push into a continent and why? It has to overcome inertia in order   to  do anything. Every action has an equal and opposite re-action; well, we    have established it’s the oceanic plate that moves. Continental India  is a solid body. Think of it   like a Volkswagen Beetle crashing into a  truck. No matter how that truck   crumples, it’s nothing compared to  how crushed the Volkswagen would be. The same   thing is true of India.   India   would be one vast mountain range, but it’s not. And the Eurasian   mountains are far too gigantic and extensive to be crumpled by puny India. 
 
Look  more closely. Examine the north of India. This   is supposed to be an  impacting body. Yet the top of it is extensive flatland.   So flat, in  fact, that it looks almost stretched out. How can this be an   impacting  body? 
 
So  how do I explain all this with a growing Earth, and how   can my  conclusion explain all the clues far, far better than this outmoded    theory? Earth grew. 
 
As earth grew India   was a part of both Africa and    Asia. The geometry of a smaller Earth makes   this very simple. India    broke away from Africa but stayed attached Eurasia.   As Africa  pulled further away the distance   simply increased. That’s it. Explains  everything. 
The mountains in Asia? We’ve    discussed how mountains are made. The thick continental plates must  re-curve   to fit a growing planet. The greatest mountain range on Earth  should be, from   compression folding, at the center of the biggest  continent on Earth. That   would be the Himalayas. 
 
Finally: 
 
It’s important to understand how desperate the scientific   and geologic community is to avoid the logical conclusion that the Earth grew. 
 
Since  the Earth, 200 million years ago, had no deep oceans   and all the  continents were seamlessly together as one land mass that covered   a  smaller planet, then any variation of this story will have to be  explained,   and re-explained as contradictions must, and do, show up  one after the other. 
 
That’s exactly what has happened! 
 
Science  has had to admit all the continents were together   because of tectonic  matching in the Atlantic   and animals and plants matching on either  side of the ocean. But it seemed no   one asked how the Pacific could  have been so vast. Incredibly, this was   ignored. 
Then  the question arose regarding how Antarctica could   have ridden to the  South Pole - especially when the other southern continents   were  wrapped around it with Antarctica in   the center. So geology made up  another part of the story in which Pangaea not   only broke up, but  broke in half and the two halves rode to and over the poles. 
 
But then how to explain how the continents are more closely   together than apart today? The new chapter of the drifting plate   myth included continents moving back toward the equator and each other, to one day crash back   together. No-one objected or pointed out the contradictions. 
 
Then  the worst possible thing happened; tectonic matching   in the Pacific  showed undeniable coincidences. At one time the Pacific was closed. So back to the drawing   board - the continents must   have been joined in the Pacific as well. Some explanation was needed fast! 
 
Of course they couldn’t even suggest that this new massive island they named   Rodinia, was assembled at the same   time as Pangaea!  So they assigned a time to it that would   never be suspected to  conflict with Pangaea. They said it was formed 11 to 12   hundred  million years ago, and it broke up 9, or 8, or 7 hundred million   years  ago. 
 
Did they have proof for these dates? Not one   tenth of a proof. How irresponsible is Rodinia’s dating? There is, in fact, no beginning point for either   Rodinia or Pangaea.   When they say these islands formed at such and such time,   it’s simply fabrication based on no proof whatsoever. It’s a lie! 
 
There  is only one proof of age that’s verifiable, and   that’s the work that  led to the Rainbow Map - and on the Rainbow Map there is   no square  yard of the deep ocean that is older than one hundred and eighty    million years in the Atlantic or Pacific. So   ‘Rodinia’ began breaking  up 180 million years ago, just as ‘Pangaea’ did. No   difference - and  there is no evidence of an archaic deep ocean anywhere in   the world. |   
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