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Continent changes & tectonic plate alignment



    
  • How do tectonic plates fit, is there place for an island or small continent between them?.
  • Has the South American continent been moved up?.
  • Has the Australian continent been moved up to?.

Tectonic plate alignment.

Before the continents started drifting apart, the world was build of one big super-continent, which was broken up and started drifting apart over the last millions of years.

As this image illustrates, there could have been place for a additional continent in the middle, which is actually missing, or below the waterline.

This possible place for an additional continental plate is colored in yellow in the present illustration.

Actual continents do not line-up completely

As mentioned in the above description, putting the actual continent lines (that is the line of 3'000 to 4'000 meters below sealevel and not the actual coast lines) together, we leave a hole somewhere in the middle, into which we could easily fit an other small continent or big island.

It is very well possible that this continental plate or big island existed and now still exist, and could be a part of the mid Atlantic ridge, or just aside of it.    Like the actual south-west corner of the EurAisian continental plate, corresponding to the actual Acores Islands area.

The reason of this continental plate not to be visible any longer is that the whole ocean floor is been lowered by an cataclysm.    The continent did probably not sink and stayed there where it was.    The raison for this is that most continents do not sink because they are of lower density as the underlying magma and therefore they will drift on that magma.     When however the all-over level of the magma below it gets lowered for any reason, the continents drifting on this part of the magma will obviously get lowered to, and will appear having sunk into the ocean.

Anyway when something sinks, something else has to come up, like huge quantities of lava spread all over the place.     There are however not enough traces of lava on the ocean floor, nor on the surrounding countries to justify such a sinking of an compete ocean floor including an island.

The second possibility is that the magma is moved elsewhere, and therefore we may expect other continents, probably in the south to be moved up by the same amount of material as the North Atlantic ocean floor has been lowered, and this must have been the job of an object of an important size and an important speed at the right place.

Australian subcontinent.

Question, Has the Australian Subcontinent been moved higher, in other words Was it lower, 12'000 years ago?.

The raison we may ask ourselves this question is that lowering the sea level by more than 15 meters leaves us a land ridge between Cape York of Australia and Papua New Guinea, like the second picture shows us.

We do know, because of wild life in Australia and also because of all the rifts around Australia, that such a ridge never existed, at least not for the last 65'000'000 years.

This because WildLife is completely different in Australia and Papua New Guinea, and in case of an existing ridge, an exchange of wildlife would have taken place, but we know now that there was no contact of wildlife between the Australian continent and the rest of the world for the last 65'000'000 years.

The things left to find out now are, the first: did the Australian continent move up, the second: if it moved up by how much did it move up?.

Are there signs of an ancient coast line now under water or are there signs of an older coastline higher up in the country?.

This will not be very easy to find out, because the event is et least 12'000 years back and the signs of an older coastline may not be visible any longer, then wind and weather have done their job since.

The South-American Inca culture.

An other sign of that something existed long time ago is the Inca culture and even a pre-Inca Culture in South-America, then a good example is this « airdrome » picture which must be some type of calendar, even when as of today the lines point to nothing known. (Some people think that this is an UFO airdrome!!.)

Then we should not forget that the position of the Earth was changed in case of an asteroid or comet impact the position, and that we cannot assume that everything was the same 12'000 years ago.    We also should not forget that the whole solar system traveled about 46 Light Years since, and that does change a lot, such as star positions and constellations.

Also were the poles in a different position, nor was the altitude of the planes with the drawings illustrated here the same, such that the lines do not point any longer in the original (correct) direction, and must have been abandoned since then by Inca's or whatever culture before that as indicator, calendar or religious system.

An other point is why did they live in the mountains on altitudes of 2'000 meters onwards, why did they not have any construction below this 2'000 meter limit?, then this does not make much sense to me, it may very well be that everything has been moved up by 2'000 meters, and that they stayed living at this altitude.

The author of Alte thesen - neue Forschungen, Otto H.Muck. did mention findings of constructions which were looking like harbors and traces of older coastlines at an altitude of 2'000 meters in the Andes, I am however unable to find back any data of this mentioning nor have I been able to find any pictures nor drawings of it, even when this could be possibly true.

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