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Fictitious Supercontinent Cycles

General Physics 2013-02-12 v2 Geophysics

Abstract

Descriptions of phenomena, events, or processes made on the basis of problematic paradigms can be unreasonably complex (e.g. epicycles) or simply wrong (e.g. ultraviolet catastrophe). Supercontinent cycles, also called Wilson cycles, are, I submit, artificial constructs, like epicycles. Here I provide the basis for that assertion and describe published considerations from a fundamentally different, new, indivisible geoscience paradigm which obviate the necessity for assuming supercontinent cycles.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1302.1425,
  title  = {Fictitious Supercontinent Cycles},
  author = {J. Marvin Herndon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1425},
  year   = {2013}
}
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