get ready for 6 degress of global warming, page-33

maps are flat, earth is round! all maps are distorted.

And much of earth science isn't exact like math or physics.

Neal Adams is actually a cartoon artist but has studied this for many decades. Look up Sam Carey's latter work if you are interested. He was a very famous Australian geologist.

Theories of the Earth and Universe, is a good book to read, may not be entirely true (he speculates towards the end) but a very good out line of the case for the general public.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Warren_Carey