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General continental nonsense

Serious entries
"Continental drip"?

"Drip tectonics"
 * also in this book:
 * also in this book:



Marshall Kay
Marshall Kay had a theory where the early continental plates "dripped" into the mantle...? Drip tectonics

Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter
David Morrison
 * Morrison, D.A. (1989) Continental drip — A theory of the shape of continents. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 58: 15-18.
 * Holden, J.C. (1991) Fake tectonics and continental drip. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 68: 20.
 * Holst T.B. (1991) Continental drip revisited. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 68: 21-22.
 * Morrison, D.A. (1991) Continental drip reviewed. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 68: 23-25.

Also:
 * Holst T B. Continental drip, Journal of Irreproducible Results 32( 1):9–10, 1986

Campbell and Griffiths
From http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008723.html#174317:

Campbell and Griffiths hypothesise (via evidence from hotspot plume composition) that before the Archaean, 4.5--4.0 billion years ago, the mantle was too hot for plate tectonics to operate: that, instead, the shell immediately below the lithosphere dripped...

Of course the first *actual landmasses* in this model were volcanic islands formed via hotspot plumes; the drips replaced subduction and didn't produce any associated crust. But it's near enough, so I'm sorry, it's officially Not Insane.

(information from the titanic tome _The Earth's Mantle: Composition, Structure, and Evolution_, which seems to be a sort of obituary by the members of the Research School of Earth Sciences of the Australian National University for their ex-department-head, Professor Ted Ringwood. I must say, this sort of thing strikes me as a far better obituary than any bloody plaque or monument.)

[1] Campbell, I. H., and Griffiths, R. W., 1992, `The changing nature of mantle hotspots through time: implications for the geochemical evolution of the mantle', J. Geol 92:497-523,

Pullet tectonics
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/the-argument-from-pullet-tectonics/

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