Mountain Ranges on an Expanding Earth

If our planet is expanding, then the old continental plates have to constantly break in order to fit onto the expanded globe. This would result in uplifting in the areas where these cracks are formed.

Typical areas where cracks would form would be where landmasses protrude out into the expanding areas and central regions of large continental plates.

Europe is a continent of peninsulas, and is therefore a good example of the first kind of cracks. Italy for instance, protrudes into the Mediterranean Sea, and the crack formed is the Alps. The Iberian peninsula is pushed up relative to France, and the resulting mountain range is the Pyrenees,

Deep into Russia, we find the second kind. The Ural Mountains is the crack that separate Europe from Asia. It was formed as the Eurasian Plate cracked.

The tall mountains of Norway is an example of the third kind. Those mountains were pushed up when the Atlantic Ocean started to form.

The Andes and the Cascade Mountains of South and North America are examples of mountains being pushed up due to the expansion of the Pacific Ocean. These are similar to the mountains found in Norway. However, while the uplifting has long since stopped in Norway, it is ongoing in the Americas.

The Rockies on the other hand were formed where the North American continent cracked. The Rockies are similar to the Ural in that they are inland mountain ranges formed as the large continental plate cracks.

The Himalayas, the huge mountain range that separates the Indian sub-continent from the rest of Asia, were formed in the same way as the Alps and the Pyrenees. The protruding landmass was forced up as the Indian Ocean expanded, and the crack formed where the Himalayas are today.

If we took away the oceans and proceeded to fold back the continents to form a smaller globe, we would find that this could be done by simply folding along the mountain ranges. In doing so, the mountains would be smoothed out to form flat plains. The ancient planet was in other words a relatively flat place with few mountains compared to what we have today.

The fact that mountain ranges form in relatively predictable places is added evidence to the expanding Earth hypothesis. There is nothing random about the location of mountain ranges. Using the expanding Earth model, their location are easy to explain.

Expanding Earth seen from the South Pole