I seem to have got stuck on this theme of the Expanding Earth theory but here are another three pieces to look at by those still awake, or vaguely interested in the subject. At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/the-inflating-earth-antarctica/ … Tim provides a nice review of the frozen continent beneath the ice, courtesy of www.the-cryosphere.net/7/375/2013/te-375-2013.pdf
He continues by saying the mysteries surrounding the inflating earth model are also being revealed as we learn more about Antarctica underneath its ice cap. For example, there is a clear marsupial connection with Australia which confirms the two continents were once joined together. Secondly, Antarctica was verdant, with many trees and flowering plants – which supports the idea it was once in a different geographical location. Tim Cullen thinks one part of Pangaea was permanently in darkness and the other half was permanently in daylight – and sees this evidence of a verdant climate as supporting this idea. Whatever, the situation was completely different to what it is today at the South Pole. In uniformitarian geology the big chill struck Antarctica 35 million years ago.
The bedrock topography of Antarctica within the wider southern hemsiphere scenario reveals stretching points around the coast of Antarctica. The most obvious of these is the West Antarctic peninsular which points like a finger towards the tip of South America and the contiental shelf around the Falklands. He says it appears to pivot away from the main body of Antarctica, noted by many people before. In an Inflating Earth model the Indian Ocean has caused Antarctica to stretch outwards and the Pacific expansion has caused the continent to stetch from west to east (causing arfching of the peninsular and in the Transantarctic Mountains). Using a graphics package, he says, suggests the continent was once somewhat rounded, with a mountainous centre (a bit like a brazil nut bulging out of a flat chocolate disc).
At this point some people may switch off as the blog author brings in Rand and Rose Flem-Ath, Atlantis in Antarctica – see www.flem-ath.com/favourites/atlantis-in-antarctica/ … a popular and big selling book in its time but one that suffered from the fact nobody could check out the theory as it was covered by ice.
Tim Cullen isn't saying Antarctica is Atlantis, merely drawing attention to the fact that it may have had some physical similarities to the island in Plato's tale. Dust down your old copy of the Flem-Ath book, bring it down from the roof loft or see if the local charity book shop has a copy, and have another read.