Lately Tortured Earth: Exoterrestrial Forces and Quantavolution in the Solar System

Author: Alfred de Grazia Year: 1983 Series: Quantavolution & Catastrophe Series Volume: VII

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Synopsis

Lately Tortured Earth is the most comprehensive Earth-sciences volume in the Quantavolution series and the longest text in the collection (~187,000 words). The title deliberately echoes “late” in the geological sense — Earth has been recently, not anciently, subjected to catastrophic forces that reshaped its surface, geology, atmosphere, and biosphere.

De Grazia surveys the geological, geophysical, and paleontological evidence for recent catastrophic change: mass extinctions, ocean floor reversals, continental disruptions, and ice age cycles that conventional science attributes to slow processes. He argues all these features are better explained by close encounters with other planetary bodies and the electromagnetic forces they unleash.

This is the most technically dense volume in the series and serves as the quantavolutionary counterpart to uniformitarian earth science textbooks. It provides the physical-science foundation that mythological volumes like Chaos and Creation and The Burning of Troy draw upon.

Jno Cook’s Note

Key Themes

• Geological evidence for recent catastrophism (mass extinctions, reversals, disruptions)
• Electromagnetic and gravitational mechanics of close planetary encounters
• The ice ages as catastrophic rather than gradual events
• Ocean floor evidence for rapid geological change
• Atmospheric and biospheric disruptions from electrical planetary encounters

See Also

• Author Index
• Chaos and Creation — cosmological origin framework
• Iron Age of Mars — Mars encounters as the agent of Earth’s torture
• Solaria Binaria — solar system origins companion

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