guys and gals think of this happening in our time?
This is
not something that is happening 'fast' in anything near the human scale. Its a normal geological rifting process that started
millions of years ago and would take millions more years to complete. The African rift, the red sea, and the major faults that travel through the
levant and into the turkish and armenia mountain ranges, are all part of this rifting. The arabian peninsula, for example, in the distant past was
connected to africa, without any red sea.
I find it amazing & think the world will just end up as small islands splattered around the globe
The continents rip apart, and are smashed back together. Infact, there have been a few periods in the past where there was only one gigantic
continent on the face of the earth, broke apart, all came back together, broke apart again, and formed todays continents.
The earth beneath your feet is in a constant state of very slow flux. The crust of the earth is a thin veneer of cold material, and man has never even
drilled through it. The mantle underneath the crust is rock under such powerful conditions that it behaves as a
plastic, and roils around like
convection cells in a pot of stew.
