What if Pangea actually covered the entire Earth?
That might sound a little rediculous especially since we were taught since grade school that the continents “floated” to their current positions after splitting apart from a super-continent called Pangea. But what if they were wrong? What if the Earth actually grew in size over time as extra-terrestrial matter (like ice, rock, and gas) and the internal heating (which would cause expansion) actually forced the continents apart?
That’s the held belief of Neal Adams as gives a visual example of how this process might work. Below is a 10 minute clip of that video, but keep reading on after you’re done…
And now here’s a story from National Geographic, by Richard Lovette, about the New Madrid fault that lies in the Mississippi Valley. This fault has produced several severe earthquakes in recent history (history of the world that is) that baffle scientists. That is, until now.
A massive earthquake, estimated at a magnitude between 7.4 to 8.0, struck New Madrid, Missouri, on February 7, 1812. […] Since 1812, there have been thousands of small earthquakes in the New Madrid fault zone. But geologists have long been baffled about why they have been occurring in the center of a continental plate.
The story goes on to explain that scientists, “concluded a plume of cold, dense rock is slowly sinking beneath the New Madrid area.” If this is the case, that subduction is taking place in the middle of the “plate”, could it be that this provides evidence for the “Growing Earth” theory as presented by Mr. Adams?
While of course this is just a theory, since we can’t exactly go back in time and see for ourselves (yet), the plausibility is growing with unexplained subduction like this going on in the middle of a continent…certainly makes sense to me.