"Are the PDFs online? You can hardly consider listing titles on a forum as proving much."

The book "Rock, stress and earthquakes" by Furen Xie must be in your library. http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/b10555-138.

"And your opening by lecturing me about journals, reality, and the truth is not promising of a fruitful discussion."

The is the same as you are asking to the review instead you would be asking to a measurement method and its results. At that time, I am able to explain our measurement and to show you some results, but I am not able to send you the reviewed papers. Wegener´s papers (and his theory) were accepted 30 years after his death :-) in 60s.