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Formation While delving into Earth changes and I needed to refresh my knowledge of how the Earth formed and evolved. The development of the popular Pangea theory is understandable. The continents do seem to fit together like puzzle pieces. I have no problem with that part. I do have a problem with the notion that one huge land mass would hang to one side of a rotating globe covered otherwise in water. Intuitively, I see the formation of the Solar System and the Earth proceeding like this: With some unknown universe event as a catalyst, the Sun was suddenly inundated with a huge spinning cloud of debris and gases. Perhaps another system collapsed and our star drew some of the fallout unto itself. While the cloud was spinning, being drawn closer to the Sun, portions began to collect by way of mass, motion, content, and so forth. Eventually there were cores gathering and these attracted more matter and energy to begin building into small sub-swirls and ultimately into spherical shapes. As these shapes took on more mass and spun tighter, they become more solid. They also begin to find more regular orbits around the Sun. Furthermore, even smaller collections form into smaller space bodies and get caught in orbits around some of the newly developed planets. Thus the Earth gained the Moon. Both were surely spinning in roughly the same space and picked up much of the same elements, but the Earth had a larger and more attractive bit of space debris with which to start, likely a chunk of iron ore. As the Sun spins with the planets swirling around it, the whole Solar System becomes a complex mechanism of fluid motion. The space bodies are like gears in a machine, each having its own properties but finding a way to lock in together as a unit too, simply by following the natural physical laws of the universe. In my considered opinion, nothing in the described motion could in any way produce a lopsided sphere. Water on the surface of a rotating and revolving sphere would equalize and flow relative to that motion. Given gravitational and centrifugal effects, land masses would likely cluster all around the middle of the sphere. These very forces are what make the Earth slightly larger around at the equator than pole-to-pole. Continents wouldn't clump in one corner for there are no corners. The land, in one piece or several, would find a way to distribute around the planet like a wide belt around its waistline. There would be a fairly equal distribution of mass above and below this equator. Some land might gather at the poles of the axis, but most of it would scoot toward a very balanced arrangement just as quickly as possible. The regular rotation or even irregular rotation of a sphere would not permit all of the land to push up in one place while the rest lay under water. That whole notion defies natural physical laws which we apply to everything ON this planet so I do not see a valid reason for breaking them to theorize what happens TO this planet. I personally feel that the Pangea story was started before we really understood or could properly conceptualize the Earth as a sphere. Looking at a flat map, it's very easy to shuffle continents until their borders match up. It's okay for them to be surrounded by water like one big island. However, try it on a three-dimensional living body of electromagnetism, covered in water, spinning in space while revolving around a star, and being affected by passing neighbors. Instead of the Pangea notion, I see the continents lined up much as they are now but simply farther apart or closer together. Some continents have broken into pieces. Others have merged. Some have been scrunched or stretched. But, I believe that the natural physical laws are always working toward finding that balance around the equator and between the hemispheres. Currently, it appears that the mass of ice at the southern pole may explain the seeming shortage of other land mass in the southern hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, there is plenty of land distributed around the surface and the north pole is mostly devoid of such structure. I am saying that if for some reason the southern ice cap would be reduced significantly, then the continents might all shimmy southward to rebalance the sphere. The continents may all have moved quite a bit if the rumored pole shifts have actually taken place. I could see the band of continents possibly running vertical to their previous horizontal circuit. This would of course cause great havoc with the flora and fauna because the climates would change dramatically. In any case, we only really know what we have today, what we can see and measure now. In order to dig into the past, we have to step back through the possible events which brought us here, and that is what I am attempting to do as I trace back to see Atlantis. Other Notes: Great Lakes look like a possible site for a monster volcano of the sort (if there is one) that might leave divets from burning out where the lava splashed? I mean, it -looks- like a splash. It's a bit too far from Hudson Bay to seem related to that event. *** Lake Victoria looks like a meteor impact site: fairly shallow, ridged. May have weakened the crust for Mt Kilamanjaro to emerge or resulting magnetic change from meteor's influence may have helped.*** Next in Sequence Select From Menu |
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