INTRODUCTION/MAIN Introduction/Main BACKGROUND Seafarer's Challenge Why This Interest Continental Drift Oppositions to Drift Craftsman's Approach EMPIRICAL MODEL The Empirical Model Expansion Basics Model Construction Expansion Basics Model Construction Model Demonstration Riverbed Formation Video Demonstration CONCLUSIONS Conclusions Summary of Evidence The Mid-Oceans Crests Making Mountains & The Pacific Ocean Moon Expulsion Earthquakes An Impact Vision EXPANSION CARTOGRAPHY Expansion Cartography The Big Picture Waterworld Inland Evidence EXPAND HOW? Expand How? Owen's Plasma Core Continental Shelves EPILOGUE Epilogue BOOK INFO Book Info / Feedback

EPILOGUE & OTHER CONSIDERATIONS If the model is taken at face value, the reader might first wonder "Where would all the water be on the smaller Earth?" If our current-sized planet were levelled, eliminating mountain heights and sea floor depths, it would be under 7,500 feet of water, according to The Almanac for Farmers and City Folk Ref 17, its source being Omni magazine. The water would cover the original, smaller Earth by more than 12,000 feet. The same source states that if the planet's current amount of water evaporated, the oceans' salt content would yield a 500-foot thick blanket on the Earth. On the smaller planet, the layer would be more than 800 feet deep. Given the information, it is possible to deduce that there was, at a certain time in this planet's history, a sudden influx of salt water, concurrent with the onset of the expansion (the impact of a celestial body causing the expulsion of the Moon). No habitation would be possible. However, the excessive amount of salt could have supported the survival of the planet itself, after the impact of celestial matter. As the water evaporated, the remaining salt subdued magma evictions at weak points in the Earth's crust. Finally, the salt was vacuum-sucked into caverns where expansion ruptured the crust, forming the rock salt bulk we now exploit. As the anonymous Dutch writer came so close to the fundamentals of expansion with his model-induced thesis, it is worthwhile to take another look at his impact hypothesis. This craftsman's job is finished. As for the doubtless doubt the project will arouse, the only defence can, and will, be the inflation and deflation of a simple live model.  Model Video | Top | Main | for Book Info / Feedback Thank you for exploring The Expanded Earth!