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Re: What is pushing continental drift or the pangea?

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On 7/27/2023 8:07 AM, Alan Folmsbee wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 2:47:02 PM UTC-4, mitchr...@gmail.com wrote:
>> what is its pushing mechanism defined as?
>> And how would it overcome its friction?
>> Without knowing a push source shows
>> it is not happening.
>> The continents if drifting will arrive on
>> the other side of the globe jumbled...
>> guaranteed...
>> The continents formed where they are instead.
>>
>> Mitchell Raemsch
> Billions of years ago a big asteroid hit the Hawaii position.
> That created the Pacific basin and the mid-Atlantic ridge.
> The mid-Atlantic is spreading and the Pacific basin
> is sub-ducting. Momentum is conserved to some degree.
> Pangea split apart to make the continents and the place where
> the impact occurred had continents that were sunk.
> Alan F.
> Hawaii

Thanks for that story. I filed it in the fiction department.

"Today, we know from radiometric dating that Earth is about 4.5 billion
years old. "

<https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/the-world-before-darwin/how-old-is-earth#:~:text=Today%2C%20we%20know%20from%20radiometric,have%20been%20taken%20more%20seriously.>

"Scientists have calculated the age of our planet to be approximately
4.5 billion years. "

<https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/how-did-scientists-calculate-age-earth/>

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What is pushing continental drift or the pangea? "mitchr...@gmail.com" <mitchrae3323@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 11:46 -0700
  Re: What is pushing continental drift or the pangea? Y <yyyyyyyyyyyayaaaaa@aol.com> - 2023-07-26 11:47 -0700
    Re: What is pushing continental drift or the pangea? "mitchr...@gmail.com" <mitchrae3323@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 11:49 -0700
      Re: What is pushing continental drift or the pangea? Y <yyyyyyyyyyyayaaaaa@aol.com> - 2023-07-26 11:53 -0700
        Re: What is pushing continental drift or the pangea? "mitchr...@gmail.com" <mitchrae3323@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 11:57 -0700
          Re: What is pushing continental drift or the pangea? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2023-07-26 12:34 -0700
      Re: What is pushing continental drift or the pangea? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2023-07-26 12:39 -0700
        Re: What is pushing continental drift or the pangea? "mitchr...@gmail.com" <mitchrae3323@gmail.com> - 2023-07-26 17:34 -0700
          Re: What is pushing continental drift or the pangea? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2023-07-26 20:55 -0700
  Re: What is pushing continental drift or the pangea? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2023-07-26 12:36 -0700
  Re: What is pushing continental drift or the pangea? Alan Folmsbee <omnilobe@gmail.com> - 2023-07-27 06:07 -0700
    Re: What is pushing continental drift or the pangea? "mitchr...@gmail.com" <mitchrae3323@gmail.com> - 2023-07-27 12:40 -0700
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