The moon as the origin of the earth's continents

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May 1980

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(Laboratorio di Astrofiscia Spaziale di Frascati, European Workshop on Planetary Sciences, Rome, Italy, Apr. 23-27, 1979.) Moon

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Continents, Earth-Moon System, Geosynchronous Orbits, Lunar Evolution, Lunar Rotation, Celestial Mechanics, Chronology, Paleontology

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The paper considers the moon as the origin of the earth's continents. Paleontological data and celestial mechanics suggest that the moon may have been in a geosynchronous corotation around the earth as a geostationary satellite; the radial segregation process responsible for the formation of the earth's iron core also brought water and lithophile elements dissolved in the water toward the surface. These elements were deposited in the area facing the moon forming a continent under shallow water; when the geosynchronous corotation of the moon became impossible, the moon receded and the earth slowed down, becoming more spherical. The consequent change in its oblateness was incompatible with the shape of the continent which then broke into separate parts.

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