plate tectonics

We all know the story's basics: Alfred Wegener proposes the idea of Continental Drift to explain a great many things about geology. Skeptics challenged him to come up with a mechanism for how it worked. In this he failed (or got bored and went to other things) and the idea languished. Until...

I'll admit that I find the idea of mantle plumes driving tectonics to be quite interesting. And I love this place www.mantleplumes.org because I can go through journal manuscripts for free. So does anyone have any knowledge to share? I know we have some geologists here. Are they real? Are they...

A very interesting, new video of a deep underwater volcanic eruption. http://news.discovery.com/earth/did-noaa-see-fire-underwater.html The story explains some of what you are seeing. Not sure I'm convinced by his explanation, hough.

My wife just sent me this link on YouTube, and I felt that I should share it with you all... http://youtube.com/watch?v=7kL7qDeI05U I cannot begin to say how stupid this idea is - for one thing, where the hell did all the water come from if the planet has been expanding as they claim? As a...