Evidence from ocean islands suggesting movement in the Earth

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Oceanic islands increase in age from the mid-ocean ridges towards continents and the andesite line reaching a maximum known age of Upper Jurassic. The Seychelles appear to be a continental fragment. Several pairs of lateral aseismic ridges extend from islands on the mid-ocean ridge to adjacent continents. Their continental junctions mark points on opposite coasts which would also fit if the continents were reassembled according to the criteria used by Wegener. As Holmes has shown each pair of ridges tends to have distinctive chemical characteristics. One possible explanation is that convection currents in the mantle rising along the mid-ocean ridges and sinking beneath trenches have carried the crust apart across the Atlantic, India and East Pacific Oceans. The lateral ridges may be approximately streamlines. Although Darwin showed that most volcanic islands sink, a few have been uplifted. Most of these lie a few hundred kilometres in front of deep trenches, suggesting that they may be on the crest of a standing wave in front of the trenches and that the crust is rigid. Of eleven straight chains of young islands in the Pacific ten get older away from the East Pacific Ridge. They could also be streamlines, fed by lava rising from deep within convection cells with stagnant cores. The regularity of ridges suggests non-turbulent flow.

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The Royal Society

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General Engineering

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