Re: Expanding Earth Video

In article <VA.00000e18.1a4032e9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Aidan Karley wrote:
it'll take a while. But I've got a weekend's news to catch up on in the
mean time.) and see just how kookish the boy is.

Went through the first half-hour and there are several points that stand out, which are identical
to Don's maunderings, and his lack of answers :
- There is no hint as to what physical process has lead to the increase in volume of the Earth
that is required by his theory;
- He constantly decries the occurrence of subduction, without once addressing the geological
reasons for believing it to be happening now (fault plane solutions, high pressure-gradient metamorphic
suites.
- Powerpoint is as much a problem for him as for anyone else.
- The first 30 minutes he does little but replay various sets of animations from his "Masters
Thesis". If that was the whole content of his thesis I'd be asking who considered this unsupported
muttering to be of a passable quality.
Why does he go for, specifically, an exponential rate of expansion?

35 minutes - "gravitational collapse of crust". Strange name for the flattening of the curvature
of segments of crust as the earth expands. That's a geometric necessity. Ah - he uses this to provide a
reason for intracratonic extension - indeed he runs it into claiming that the Red Sea is an example of
this collapse process, and not an ocean basin developing.
42 minutes and he appears to be claiming that intra-cratonic extension was the expression of
earth expansion in that period. So from the Permian back to the Mesoproterozoic he goes around closing
intracratonic basins to accommodate his shrinking Earth. Still no explanation of where he gets his
material from. No explanation of why the "EE-tectonic" style changed at around the start of the
Mesozoic.
Now, why is he stressing that the Atlantic-Indian and Pacific oceans were (in his
reconstructions) separate and possibly had different salinities and faunas ... Oh, he sees the draining
of one ocean into another as being a cause for mass extinctions. Water running uphill? Or ocean's worth
of salt deposition? Conflicting data I leave as an exercise for the reader.
I'll have to watch the 3rd third of it tomorrow.

Has don exploded yet? Did anyone get hit in the killfile by the shrapnel?

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Aidan Karley, FGS
Aberdeen, Scotland,
Location: 57°10'11" N, 02°08'43" W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233

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