This always made me wonder, and I might be a stupid question, but I know Pangea was this one huge mass at one point. Was there nothing on the other side of the world except water? Why did all the land form on one side of the globe?
Huh. Makes sense, I guess. I wonder if the continents just switch sides every however often and they’re just in the process of migrating together again but on the opposite side this time 🤔 I should go to bed lol
The Pacific Ocean is really big.
This always made me wonder, and I might be a stupid question, but I know Pangea was this one huge mass at one point. Was there nothing on the other side of the world except water? Why did all the land form on one side of the globe?
Correct. Nothing but water. Pangea wasn’t the only supercontinent in Eath’s history, just the latest.
Huh. Makes sense, I guess. I wonder if the continents just switch sides every however often and they’re just in the process of migrating together again but on the opposite side this time 🤔 I should go to bed lol
That is indeed pretty much what happens.
The entire mantle is constantly moving and essentially “floating” on our dense Liquid Metal core
Land masses drifting on a globe, crash together, bouncing off, drifting apart, rinse repeat on the other side.