James Maxlow
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Dr. James Maxlow was born in England in 1949, and lateremigrated to Australia with his parents in 1953. He grew upin Melbourne, where he later met and married his lovelywife Anita. A few years were spent in northern Victoria where theybuilt their house of stone, before relocating to Western Australia.
[edit] History
James’s earliest interest in geology stems from a day at the seaside inEngland when he was about four years old. Overcome by an acute fear ofthe tide coming in, masquerading as huge surf thundering along theforeshore, he broke free of his father and siblings and ran back to hispregnant mother waiting in their car parked in the sand dunes. Well, thetide was coming in. Self preservation prevailed.
Along the way back to the car he stopped momentarily for a rest andspotted grains of a black substance washed up along the shoreline. Thisaroused his curiosity, and on enquiry it turned out to be coal.
His passion for the outdoors was later kindled by regular camping tripsthroughout Victoria during his early childhood days in Australia, later toblossom into bush walking, caving and rock hunting during his collegeyears.
[edit] Education
A side track into an unfinished Civil Engineering degree was soonredirected to a degree in Geology at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne. After working as a geologist in Victoria, a briefsojourn into surveying, survey drafting and mine surveying again saw himreturn to geology, this time in the Northern Territory and in WesternAustralia.
James’s interest in Earth expansion stems from working in the Pilbararegion of Western Australia. The Pilbara region is a huge domal structure,hundreds of kilometres across. There, chemically deposited banded ironand silica-rich sedimentary rocks form the largest deposits of iron-ore inthe world.
What was so intriguing to James was that the bedded sediments, rightdown to fine sedimentary laminations seen in the iron-ore, could becorrelated between widely separated sites for distances of over 300 kilo-metres. As you drive through the Pilbara region, the exact same sequenceof rocks and fine banded structures are exposed everywhere along the hillsand escarpments.
Studies showed that, in the central portion of the Pilbara domalstructure, some 30 kilometres of sediment and volcanic rocks had beeneroded away. It occurred to James that this domal structure may have beena preserved fragment of the ancient Earth, existing some 2,500 millionyears ago.
It took a further ten years of working and raising a family beforecircumstances allowed James to return to University. Even there he had tofollow established protocol though, before finally breaking free andbranching out into his own research.
[edit] Publications
- Terra Non-Firma ISBN 0952260328
