The Nature of the Stratigraphical Record

An Early Incorrect Assumption About Plate Tectonics

Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods…

Aug 31, 2011 1 1

• erroneous hypothesis
• error
• falsified
• falsified hypothesis