Expanding Earth

Historical Hilgenberg globes[1]
Potential reconstruction of continents bordering the Atlantic (left column) and Pacific (right column) oceans as they might have appeared at different points, going back in history, using the expanding Earth hypothesis, based on reconstructions by expanding Earth proponent Neal Adams

The expanding Earth or growing Earth was a hypothesis attempting to explain the position and relative movement of continents by increase in the volume of Earth. With the recognition of plate tectonics in 20th century, the idea has been abandoned.[2][3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ Ott Christoph Hilgenberg: Vom wachsenden Erdball. Berlin 1933.
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  5. ^ Buis A.; Clavin W. (16 August 2011). "NASA Research Confirms it's a Small World, After All". Archived from the original on 3 January 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  6. ^ Schmidt, P. W.; Clark, D. A. (1980). "The response of palaeomagnetic data to Earth expansion". Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 61: 95–100. Bibcode:1980GeoJ...61...95S. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1980.tb04306.x.