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Isn't it a bit early to be calling it a cycle? I mean, we've not even completed one full iteration yet. Unless I'm wrong, and the tectonic plates existed and w
by samplatt 10y ago
Isn't it a bit early to be calling it a cycle? I mean, we've not even completed one full iteration yet.
Unless I'm wrong, and the tectonic plates existed and were moving long before the oceans did?
- FreeFull 10y agoThe cycle has already completed many times. At all points there were oceans somewhere, it's not like the water materialised out of nowhere recently.
- Tushon 10y agoOne full iteration of continent formation and breaking up? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supercontinents#Prehistoricals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supercontinents#Prehis... Seems to indicate otherwise, but I'm certainly no expert on geology or whatever sub-specialization is concerned with plate tectonics and history of them.
- sjwright 10y agoBy that logic, it's a bit early to conclude that Pluto orbits the sun. We haven't even seen it go half way around yet.
- bcraven 10y agoNo we have plenty of evidence of previous cycles. It's called the Wilson Cycle: http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/Fichter/Wilson/Wilson.html http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/Fichter/Wilson/Wilson.html For further reading I can recommend 'Supercontinent' by Ted Nield.