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Tracing the Continental Drift Page  I   II   III   IV   V   For a different layout, you can go to my old _ page or to my substack Conversations with Grok I About the possibility of the Earth's core's extra rotation driving the Continental Drift [Grok 3 beta / highlighted, abridged and edited] Spring 2025 Note / History : In 1996 or thereabouts, I arrived at the conclusion that the Earth's core might be revolving faster than the surface , thus driving the Continental Drift , by looking at that surface; this was literally top-down . In 2005 or thereabouts, scientists arrived at the conclusion that the Earth's core might be revolving faster than the surface , by measuring seismic waves bouncing off of it. This was bottom-up , so to speak; but as far as I know, no connection was ever made to any movement on the surface. This is a test calculation, with the help of AI, to see if tha...

Tracing the Continental Drift Page  I   II   III   IV   V   For a different layout, you can go to my old _ page or to my substack Data basis for flash or morphing experiments   Well, it may not be that easy, as the data is only available here to about 50%.  The age per kilometer of spread - out ocean floor and continental crust is relatively well known, the age of the same, buried under mountains, only as a whole.  To what extent continents and ocean floors were deformed by subduction and mountain building, can only be estimated. My idea is to take, for instance, the picture http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/crustageposter.jpg and reduce the ocean floor in steps according to its age, as depicted by the colours. This will not work unless one has continental crust to expand accordingly. To illustrate the last 200 - 250 million years at issue here, one could superimpose the map of the alpine...

Tracing the Continental Drift Page  I   II   III   IV   V For a different layout, you can go to my old _ page or to my substack The forming of the Alpine and Himalayan mountain ranges   The time and distance estimates Assuming that the continents are being mechanically driven steadily around the world in a meandering fashion by a faster rotation of the Earth's core, instead of moving around erratically due to mantle convection driven by its heat, could this quasi-steady movement be measured as distance of travel? How far have the continents traveled? Let's try to have a guess. I ) The first clue: Archaeopteryx ( latitude )   The fossil remains of Archaeopteryx , a link between reptiles and birds, and about the size and weight of a modern crow, have been dug up in Solnhofen , Germany . One could assume that, some 150 million years ag...