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When Tanya Atwater published her seminal paper launching plate tectonics, we geologists were now aware of the pattern of magnetic anomalies paralleling mid-ocea
by cc101 3y ago
When Tanya Atwater published her seminal paper launching plate tectonics, we geologists were now aware of the pattern of magnetic anomalies paralleling mid-oceanic ridges and now aware of the layered structure of the earth. This information provided validation of her theory and explained that, while continents are too thin to move, they could move if they were "bonded" to part of the asthenosphere.
The "old guard" was right according to the best available information. When Atwater linked the two new bodies of information, plate tectonics swept away opposition of both the "old guard" and the "new".
Put differently, you don't know what you're talking about.
- ttfkam 3y agoWow, so much venom. My point about washing hands was correct. It also applies to quantum physics. And yes, there were old guard geologists that denied it to their death beds just as there were old guard that cling to sublumeniferous aether and the constancy of time long after Einstein published his seminal works. The phenomenon within the scientific community is so common in fact, it has a pithy name: The Planck Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle