The proposal emerged in 2005 via and another newsgroup that the 26 mile spherical deviation between Polar and Equatorial diameters and the Mid Atlantic Ridge could be bundled together using a common mechanism, namely, differential rotation across latitudes.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...acturezone.svg


Astronomers are supposed to recognise that when a viscous celestial composition is rotating, it has an uneven reduction in rotational speeds between its maximum speed down to zero at the Poles. When this differential rotation mechanism is coupled with a solid but fractured crust that does have an even rotational gradient between Equator and Poles then it would account for the fracture zones across the length of the Earth and coincident with the axis of rotation -

https://www.windows2universe.org/ear...g_image.ht ml


Rotation as a mechanism did show up shortly after the outlines of a mechanism was proposed but it was and remains so haphazard that it may as well have remained with the older and non-rotational view in circulation around the time this newsgroup was seeing the first outlines of differential rotation -

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php...oldid=29688503


I see a few pseudo-intellectual strutting around this newsgroup still and completely oblivious to innovations that some in the wider world have taken notice of and especially the partitioning of direct/retrogrades and to a lesser extent this topic.