© Lloyd, Charles Chandler

 

SUPERCONTINENT FORMATION?
2nd Earlier - forming continental crust

Most of the Pacific seafloor was not affected by the Shock Dynamics event, and there are features on it that point to an extraordinary past. Using the assumptions and evidence upon which the Shock Dynamics theory is based plus current ideas about the formation of the Moon, it is possible to piece together a series of major events on Earth prior to the Shock Dynamics event.

The Earth began with a uniform basaltic crust, typical of oceanic crust.

A moderately large impact struck the Earth near where Japan is today.

The melting and mixing of basaltic crust and upper mantle differentiated into continental crust in the impact area, which I will call Antar.

The collision of a Mars-size planetesimal ejected material that coalesced to form the Moon, according to current mainstream thinking. In this reconstruction, the impact also struck the northern portion of Antar, splitting it and sending the pieces skimming across the basaltic crust. The pulling away of the largest piece, which became East Antarctica, left an extension that became Alaska and the Chukchi Peninsula following the Shock Dynamics impact (see Alaska view). The collision likely gave Earth its 23.45 degree tilt.

The largest piece came to rest near the South Pole (white dot). As with the first impact, the melting and mixing of basaltic crust and upper mantle differentiated into continental crust in the large area hit by the planetesimal, becoming the protocontinent.