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In this episode, we trace the history of plate tectonics and answer the nagging question, "How do they come up with this stuff?!"


References:

Creationist Arguments
icr.org/article/78
answersingenesis.org/geology/plate-tectonics
creation.com/is-catastrophic-plate-tectonics-part-of-earth-history
In the Beginning: COMPELLING EVIDENCE FOR CREATION AND THE FLOOD
creationscience.com

Abraham Ortelius "Thesaurus Geographicus"
worldcat.org/title/thesaurus-geographicus/oclc/632541635

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - X-Rays
archive.org/details/laphotographiede00aube

Henri Becquerel
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k30780/f422.chemindefer

List of Works by the Curies
goodreads.com/author/list/126903.Marie_Curie

Alfred Wegener
schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783443010881

Wegner Species similarities
geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap1-Pioneers-of-Plate-Tectonics/Alfred-Wegener/Fossil-Evidence-from-the-Southern-Hemisphere

Fossil and geological commonalities between South America and Africa
http://publish.illinois.edu/alfredwegener/evidence/

Motonori Matuyama - Magnetic Reversals
researchgate.net/publication/284542674_On_the_direction_of_magnetization_of_basalt_in_Japan_Tyosen_and_Manchuria

Wadati–Benioff zones
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsabulletin/article-abstract/60/12/1837/4258/seismic-evidence-for-the-fault-origin-of-oceanic

Works by Maurice Ewing
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/books/maurice-ewing-series.html

Bruce Heezen
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1960SciAm.203d..98H

Ronald Mason
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsabulletin/article-abstract/72/8/1259/5356/magnetic-survey-off-the-west-coast-of-north?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Subduction
rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/222/1150/341

Subduction Observed
academic.oup.com/gji/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/gji/ggt214

Formation of the Himalayas
pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/himalaya.html

Hayward Fault
latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-earthquake-curb-destroyed-20160705-snap-htmlstory.html

Martian plate tectonics
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-scientist-discovers-plate-237303
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/lithosphere/article-abstract/4/4/286/145626/structural-analysis-of-the-valles-marineris-fault?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Tectonics on Mars: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/lithosphere/article-abstract/4/4/286/145626/structural-analysis-of-the-valles-marineris-fault?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Tectonics on Venus: readcube.com/articles/10.1038/ngeo2928

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