If the Earth has rapidly reoriented in the past, the resulting inertial mismatch between the solid Earth and its fluid envelopes would drive high-velocity surface transport. The atmosphere, hydrosphere, and unconsolidated materials would be mobilised along coherent trajectories dictated by the rotation geometry, producing large-scale, directionally organised flow fields. These flows would imprint persistent anisotropic signatures into the geological and geomorphological record, expressed through aligned erosional features, sediment transport pathways, and coherent structural overprints.
Catastrophe, in its original sense, denotes a turning point, not a failure. In far-from-equilibrium systems, such turning points are unavoidable. The choice is not between change and stability, but between managed inheritance and abrupt transmission. Noise is not the adversary of order. Unacknowledged drift is.