New Indivisible Geoscience Paradigm

TL;DR

This paper proposes a new geoscience paradigm based on Earth's formation from enstatite chondrite-like material, suggesting a planet formed as a gas giant with internal nuclear reactors, challenging traditional plate tectonics models.

Contribution

It introduces a novel interpretation of Earth's composition and formation, emphasizing a planetocentric nuclear reactor and a gas-giant origin, diverging from conventional models.

Findings

Earth's interior resembles enstatite chondrites.

Earth formed as a Jupiter-like gas giant.

Internal nuclear reactor explains geomagnetic field.

Abstract

Earth's interior, I posit, is like one of the rare, oxygen-starved "enstatite chondrite" meteorites (and unlike a more-oxidized "ordinary chondrite" as has been believed for seventy years). Laboratory-analyzed enstatite-chondrite samples are comparable to having-in-hand impossibleto- gather deep-Earth samples. Enstatite-chondrite formation in oxygen-starved conditions caused oxygen-loving elements to occur, in part, as non-oxides in their iron-alloy. Observations, consistent with solar abundance and behavior of chemical elements, lead me to a new interpretation of: (1) Earth's early formation as a Jupiter-like gas-giant, (2) its decompressionpowered surface geology, (3) Earth's internal composition, and (4) a natural, planetocentric nuclear-fission reactor as source of both the geomagnetic field and energy channeled to surface "hot-spots". I present a unified vision of Earth formation and concomitant dynamics that explains in a logical and causally related way: (1) fluid Earth-core formation without wholeplanet melting, and (2) the myriad measurements and observations, previously attributed to "plate tectonics", but without necessitating mantle convection.