The D-Team do it again

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"In a study published in the January-February 2006 issue of the
Geological Society of America Bulletin, a team of Italian and U.S.
scientists argued that the westward component of plates is from
Earth's rotation and consequent tidal friction of the moon. As the
Earth spins eastward beneath the moon, they say, the moon's gravity
ever so slightly pulls the Earth's surface layer back westward. It has
also been suggested (albeit, controversially) that this observation
may also explain why Venus and Mars have no plate tectonics since
Venus has no moon, and Mars' moons are too small to have significant
tidal effects on Mars.[21]

"This is not, however, a new argument. It was originally raised by the
"father" of the plate tectonics hypothesis, Alfred Wegener. It was
challenged by the physicist Harold Jeffreys who calculated that the
magnitude of tidal friction required would have quickly brought the
Earth's rotation to a halt long ago. Many plates are moving north and
eastward, and the dominantly westward motion of the Pacific ocean
basins is simply from the eastward bias of the Pacific spreading
center (which is not a predicted manifestation of such lunar forces).
It is argued, however, that relative to the lower mantle, there is a
slight westward component in the motions of all the plates."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
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Following their 2003 entry in the Encyclopedia of Life Support
Systems (UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, www.eolss.net) and three
years on (that's six years after this site
http://users.indigo.net.au/don/
went up on the web) the D-team of Doglione and Co. do it again and
give Earth Rotation another birl, this time in the prestigious
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America.

Unfortunately their explanation about the Moon is a bit iffy since
again it ignores the aspect of Earth expansion which is the
architectural side of this rotational coin. But (again) it's a
start. They're getting there, but we have to ask ourselves why are
they pussyfooting around talking about plates? ...keeping Earth spin
and tidal friction within the ambit of Plate Tectonics when the two
are mutually exclusive dynamics when it comes to explaining the
deformation of the Earth? Plate Tectonics is all about deformation by
internal convection; the architecture of spin, as outlined on this
site (link above), is all about expansion, indeed defines expansion,
and as well, knits together all other aspects of the geology of the
planet. Why are these 'gentlemens' going out of their way to miss
what's staring them in the face?

I believe it is because they are gentlemen, not wanting to ruffle too
many feathers at once ..not like these rough, star-spangled chooks
http://users.indigo.net.au/don/ng/isostacy2.html
who think the planet is a vehicle for their own self-aggrandisement.
I don't believe they're missing anything at all. I think they're just
falling into line with that other cultured fellow, Mr Scalera at the
University of xxxxx You see too, how they've introduced the topic
in the most innocuous way using an old saw, trying to couch it in that
stuff about Moon tidal friction .. for which they are prepared to get
slated, ..even mentioning plates just so everybody knows they're
spiking lingo and so won't waken anybody up from boring sleep.

But it put the guy who did the wiki entry on red-alert, didn't it
ever! ...because he knows, ..he knows, .. that once you start talking
about the Earth's rotation in any way shape or form you are no longer
talking about Plate Tectonics the way everyone's used to. He knows
this is serious dancing, and he'd better get on his toe-capped, head-
kicking pumps pretty damn fast and tell Stu, ..and get stuck in.

He's wrong anyway about plates. Plates grow, ..they don't move, and
once you get your head around that one everything about Plate
Tectonics follows as nonsense.

But anyway what do the Dream-Team care? They've laid the plank, ..and
now they're going to make everybody walk it.

Rotation first, expansion next.
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