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Re: Is Pangea still drifting?

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mitchrae3323@gmail.com writes:

>On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 8:22:08 PM UTC-7, David Dalton wrote:

>> The general consensus is that plate tectonics is
>> driven by mantle convection.

>Don't the plates fit completely over the entire Earth leaving no
>room to move David? They meet each other at their boundaries
>leaving no movement possible.

Ever hear of earthquakes? At the scale involved (continent sized) even
solid rock is flexible to expand or contract a couple cm/year. Also
many plates are being pushed under other plates, particularly around
the Pacific. Or they pile up into mountains (like the Himalayas)

>> It hasn't ended, the plates are moving at a rate of
>> centimetres per year, with the Atlantic opening and
>> the Pacific closing.

>Then there is a reverse Pangea coming that doesn't fit together.

Don't worry, the plates will slide under each other, crunch up against
each other to form mountains and so forth.

>I don't believe that measurement.

Well, the measurements don't believe in you.

>The alternative is that everything has been where it is at since the 
beginning.

We know that is wrong from the geologic records.

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Is Pangea still drifting? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-07-26 18:14 -0700
  Re: Is Pangea still drifting? David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2018-07-27 00:52 -0230
    Re: Is Pangea still drifting? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-07-26 20:30 -0700
      Re: Is Pangea still drifting? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2018-07-27 15:07 +0000
        Re: Is Pangea still drifting? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-07-27 09:21 -0700

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