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Old 31-August-2008, 09:44 PM
rodin rodin is offline
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Originally Posted by Lepton View Post
You don't know much about plate tectonics do you? The ocean floor spreads about 2.5 centimeter per year and the only way EE could be made to seem correct is if there were no such thing as subduction zones. Your job is now to prove to me and everybody reading that there is no such thing as subduction zones.
Well assuming the model of subduction is correct (there seems to be some debate about this) the obvious answer is as a result of the subsequent reduction in Earth diameter. And perhaps in addition to expansion then contraction there are eddy currents. The 2 are not mutually exclusive.