Contracting Earth | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-15

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophysical_global_cooling


00:00:26 1 Application
00:03:31 2 Objections
00:04:09 3 Current status
00:04:39 4 See also



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Before the concept of plate tectonics, global cooling was a geophysical theory by James Dwight Dana, also referred to as the contracting earth theory.  It suggested that the Earth had been in a molten state, and features such as mountains formed as it cooled and shrank.  As the interior of the Earth cooled and shrank, the rigid crust would have to shrink and crumple.  The crumpling could produce features such as mountain ranges.