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Recently I’ve read some serious discussions about the possibility that the continental breakup was caused by the global deluge. Under this scenario, the preflood earth was all one continent, called Pangaea (or Pangea) by earth scientists, some of who believe this supercontinent existed 250 million years ago during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic ages.
Pangea is discussed here in a Wikipedia entry. Some images of Pangea can be found at:
- The “Paleomar Project” of Christopher Scotese
- USGS continental history maps
- Wikipedia map with today’s continents shown
- Geology.com continent maps
- Pangaea map at New Pangaea
- Interesting Wikimedia map showing proposed climate regions
- NSF map showing proposed low-oxygen regions — explanatory article here
ARK — 26 Oct. 2009
A. Roy King 
Roy, I recommend that you read up on continental drift to prove to yourself that this is nonsense. Rain doesn’t cause continents to move around. The movement of tectonic plates is responsible for this and they move at a speed of a few centimetres per year.
In any case, the supercontinent Pangaea was not the original state of the Earth, The Earth is much older than 250 million years and there may have been many supercontinents before Pangaea.
Yes, I know something about plate tectonics, and you are right that rain alone likely couldn’t cause such changes. It would take much greater forces.
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