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Old 14-November-2008, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Torsten View Post
Kerr wrote:
"This new data indicates tectonic activity seems to dominate the surface of Ganymede as it does on Europa more than the icy volcanism we expected" (my emphasis).
Shock and awe. However expansion tectonics is the exact opposite of plate tectonics.

Plate tectonics does not exist on Ganymede.

Martin, P., et al., Why Does Plate Tectonics Occur Only On Earth?, Physics Education, 43, Pages 144-150, 2008

Samuel Warren Carey came up with the answer to that question.

"Subduction exists only in the minds of its creators." -- Samuel W. Carey, geologist, 1976

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Why do you pitch the article you linked as peer-reviewed and why do you think it supports the notion of an expanding Ganymede?
You ignore all the peer reviewed science which is why you deliberately chose to limit your discussion to the only article that wasn't peer reviewed but which nevertheless was published in Science Magazine.
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