Expanding Earth

There are 3 forms of the expanding earth hypothesis.

He, and a small number of other researchers, continued to support and investigate expanding earth models.

But he believed here in an Expanding Earth.

The expanding Earth and the contracting Earth concept had to be given up.

The idea of mass accretion and the expanding earth theory are not currently considered to be viable by mainstream scientists.

He was an early proponent of continental drift and the unauthodox expanding earth theory.

Because the costs and logistics of expanding Earth observations are daunting for any single nation, linking systems together through international cooperation also offers cost savings.

His work on plate tectonics reconstructions led him to develop the Expanding Earth hypothesis.

The energy problem has also been considered in relation to the idea of mass accretion in connection with the Expanding Earth theory.

This led Mantovani to propose an Expanding Earth theory which has since been shown to be incorrect.

While Carey did advocate an expanding Earth in the mid-20th century, his model was rejected especially following the development of the theory of plate tectonics.

Expanding Earth theory (superseded by subduction)

His hypothesis gave the 'mechanism' for this as an expanding earth; whereas the new hypothesis of plate tectonics accounted for it with subduction.

Generally, the scientific community finds that there is no evidence in support of the Expanding Earth theory, and there is evidence against it:

Therefore, Heezen advocated the so-called "expanding Earth" hypothesis of S. Warren Carey (see above).

The fixist/ Pratt-Hayford isostasy, the contracting Earth and the expanding Earth concepts had many flaws as well.

Some of these ideas were discussed in the context of abandoned fixistic ideas of a deforming globe without continental drift or an expanding Earth.

Heezen, abandons the expanding Earth theory as it requires a radial expansion of 4-8 mm/year for the Atlantic Ocean alone .

Adams holds the work of Samuel Warren Carey in high esteem, he does consider the term "Expanding Earth" a misnomer.

Inspired by Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, Hilgenberg worked intensely in the area of the Expanding Earth theory.

Expanding Earth models based on thermal expansion contradict most modern principles from rheology, and fail to provide an acceptable explanation for the proposed melting and phase transitions.

The expanding Earth or growing Earth hypothesis asserts that the position and relative movement of continents is at least partially due to the volume of the Earth increasing.

Bruce Heezen initially interpreted his work on the mid-Atlantic ridge as supporting S. Warren Carey's Expanding Earth Theory, but later withdrew his support.

I first met the Southport wizard 20 years ago in a remote Welsh outpost; and within minutes we were immersed in a fascinating discussion about rises in sea level and the expanding Earth.

Like Ott Christoph Hilgenberg, Samuel Warren Carey and Pascual Jordan, Egyed was a supporter of the Expanding Earth theory, an alternative to plate tectonics.