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Old 07-September-2008, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Lepton View Post
There is no mainstream theory that meets your ridiculous ideas about water distribution. As I said (and plate tectonics says), the continents were joined at the continental shelf. How does that fit in your "water distribution scheme?
There is a good Pangea animation here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea

Why was the sea to one side? Water would distribute radially about the planet CoG. This means the submerged land mass must be very much denser than the continent to produce a centre of gravity commensurate with water distribution