I have a question about Pangea that I have been asking for a while without getting an answer I find satisfying. Maybe you can help? Why did all the land assemble on one side of earth in the past? Longer version: https://atdotde.blogspot.com/2017/11/why-is-there-supercontinent-cycle.html (layout degraded over time)
Because it is very unlikely that if you have N plates they all meet at the same time. I would assume they meet in pairs or maybe threesomes but not more (depending a bit on how long they stick together).
No, the more plates involved it becomes more and more unlikely. And if you look at the actual simulated pictures it does not look like random bouncing.
I'm wondering if it's because the model follows our current plates, which we know how they work and did work, so we simulate the past with them. But do they overwrite old plates we don't know about upon moving? I didn't go to science school.
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