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THE ORIGINS OF THE MYTH. “Because 1970s conjectures that whole-mantle convection and plate tectonics operated throughout most of Earth history dominate paleodynamic literature, studies of the magnetization of Precambrian rocks have mostly interpreted data in these terms.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

TECTONIC MINDSET. “Phanerozoic lithosphere motions are well documented by paleomagnetic recordings of plate-tectonic sundering of supercontinent Pangea and complex dispersion and assembly of major fragments to present-day configurations during the last 600 m.y.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

THE PERSISTENT MYTH. “Precambrian paleomagnetism? Evidence often cited for a permanent liquid core and ancient plate tectonics comes from paleomagnetic interpretations that may be in error.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

MAGNETIC SHIELD THESIS. “The Cambrian explosion of evolution produced almost all phyla of modern animals within about 50 m.y., possibly because the newly-formed strong dipolar magnetic field provided a shield against ionized radiation.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

POSSIBLE SALVAGE. “Phanerozoic remagnetization of Precambrian rocks? The study of the large paleomagnetic database for Precambrian and Phanerozoic rocks of Europe east of Britain and the Carpathians by Bazhenov et al. (2016) provides a possible avenue for solving the conflicts.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

NEVER FORGET THIS. “Another major drawback of the Standard Model is the fact that it uses two predominant components, dark matter and dark energy, supposed to represent about 95% of the universe energy density, but which have remarkably resisted to experimental identification so far.” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

GROUP THINK OF THE ERA. “These are only a few examples of the many that exist. Possibly relevant is the observation that all of these aggregates share similar features and so there may have been little or no dispersal or aggregation until latest Proterozoic time (Meert, 2014).” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

DARK ENERGY. “And it is only at the age of a few billion years that the Dark Energy component, a name hiding our ignorance of its true nature, becomes dominant, leading to a universe of accelerated expansion, where galaxies will find themselves isolated from each other in a (relatively) near future.” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

PREVAILING DOGMA. “Piper (2018) illustrated a little-varying Proterozoic supercontinent (Fig. 32b) whose core aggregate was fixed in Proterozoic latitude (which is incompatible with the geodetic expectation that the spin equator be parallel, not perpendicular, to megacontinent/megaocean dichotomy boundary) until it sundered when modern plate tectonics began in the very late Proterozoic.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

Artist’s rendering if 16 Psyche asteroid’s rusty surface." " https://lnkd.in/dTXustpB View in LinkedIn