The drifting continents

Science agrees, the continents we know today were once joined as one super land mass which has broken up and drifted apart.

Just why this happened has remained a mystery. All theories proposed so far, have failed to find an answer. The more information we find about this continental puzzle, the more the mystery deepens.

It was discovered, all the Earth's oceanic expanses are recent geological developments. They, being two thirds of the Earth's surface, didn't exist 200 million years ago, yet all the land masses did. Some continents are estimated to be up to 4,000 million years old, 3,800 million years older than any of the ocean basins. In other words, 200 million square kilometres of the Earth's surface has been created in the last twentieth of the Earth's continental history.

What was the Earth like prior to the formation of the oceanic expanses? With two thirds of its present surface missing, was it smaller?

The answer lies in the correct understanding of the forces that structure our planet.

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