Jeffrey J Wolynski said:
the ground is contracting causing the appearance of "folding landmasses" that are attributed to "moving plates".

I agree that the conventional plate tectonics theory is in trouble, but I don't think that the whole story can be summed up as just a shrinking Earth due to cooling. If that's all there was to it, the entire crust would be under pressure, and the pressure ridges would be everywhere. And yet there is clear evidence in a number of parts of the world of tensile forces. The Mid-Atlantic fault system is one case, where the transform faults are indicative of sheered tensile strain.

 

 

Large-scale rifts, such as Death Valley, are another example of places where pieces of crust are being pulled apart. This is the kind of thing that drove my to develop the Earthquakes model, which "seems" to be capable of generating a tensile force. Please have a look and let me know your thoughts on that.

Jeffrey J Wolynski said:
This means GTSM flatly contradicts expanding Earth theory.

As put, I'm not convinced that shrinking/cooling and expanding are actually mutually exclusive, despite the seemingly obvious contradiction. I might be wrong about this, but my understanding of at least some of the expanding Earth hypotheses is that matter is accreting from space, and this is slowly adding mass. In other words, the Earth could be cooling, and shrinking, but more matter might be getting layered down on top of what's already there. So it's shrinking and expanding at the same time. Uh-oh — gotta run out for another bottle of aspirin, and some JD to wash it down... :)