Re: Supertides Are Pushing All of Earth's Continents Together Once More

Originally Posted by
Osborne Russell
Continents are not pushed. Plates are pushed, and pulled.
The first paragraph:
Earth's crust is made up of fractured slabs of rock, like a broken shell on an egg. These plates move around at speeds of about 5 centimetres (2 inches) per year - and eventually this movement brings all the continents together and form what is known as a supercontinent.
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