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Journal of Petroleum Geology

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Journal of Petroleum Geology, Vol.10, No.3, pp. 351-354, 1987

©Copyright 2000 Scientific Press, Ltd.

COMMENTS ON "PLATE-TECTONICS WITH FIXED CONTINENTS:
A TESTABLE HYPOTHESIS--I and II"

B. D. Martin*

* Bruce Martin Associates, Inc., P. O. Box 234, Leonardtown, Maryland 20650, USA.


Lowman (1985a; 1985b, 1986) makes a convincing case for permanency or non-drifting of the Earth's continents relative to each other and for those continents as large or larger than Australia. These major continents have been fixed since at least pre-Cambrian time and are on the North American Plate, South American Plate, African Plate, Eurasian Plate, Indian-Australian Plate and the Antarctic Plate. On first inspection of Lowman's Tectonic and Activity Map (Sept. 1980; 1985b - Fig. 1), it seems similar to maps in other publications, showing the oceanic rifts and faults separating various plates on which one or more continents occur. Lowman, however, has added tectonics, volcanic activities, spreading rates of the rifts, along with data indicating normal and reverse faults; other similar maps and charts show only part of the data. West (1981) discusses the differences between Lowman's Fig. 1 and the somewhat incomplete maps and charts of others.

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