# S. Warren Carey Back to [[Expanding Earth and Plate Tectonics]] **Role:** historical background. - An early supporter of continental drift. In the 1950s he found that continents fit better on a smaller globe and adopted Earth expansion, building on Ott Christoph Hilgenberg's *Vom wachsenden Erdball* (1933) (summarized on the advocate site [dinox.org](https://www.dinox.org/eehistory.html)). - Book: *The Expanding Earth* (Elsevier, 1976) ⚠️. Dates 1911–2002 ⚠️ (from memory). - Expansion lost out to plate tectonics after the 1960s, once subduction (Benioff zones, Isacks et al. 1968) accounted for the balance of crust.