There are two continents with an ocean between them. Today, the continents have very different plants and animals on them. Howev
er, a geologist found fossils of the same type of organism on both continents. Millions of years ago, when this type of organism was alive, we know it lived in only one place. The geologist is using the fossils as evidence to argue that the two continents used to be touching. How could the continents have gotten so far apart, and how long did it take for this to happen?
The worldwide cataclysmic flood in the days of Noah caused the continents to move into the places we find them today. Earth has been affected by sudden, short-lived, violent events that were sometimes worldwide in scope.
This is called Catastrophism and it states that the Earth has been affected by sudden, short-lived, violent events that were sometimes worldwide. Creationists always opt for the catastrophic explanation and more often than not, this is the dynamic that best explains what we see in nature.
Some of the continents might have moved apart after being together and might have been spread around by animals eating them, moving to another area, and the feces of the animal sink into the ground with some of the fossils still inside of it.
A fissure vent or eruption fissure is a linear volcanic vent from which lava erupts mostly without explosive activity. The vent is usually not very wide but can be very long stretching for miles. While they do not explode like many volcanic cones do, fissure vents can cause large flood basalts. After some time the eruption builds up spatter cones and may concentrate on one or some of them. Spatter cones are steep-sided hills that consist of welded lava fragments that are called spatter and these cones form around vents.
Orogeny is the primary mechanism by which mountains are formed on continents. An orogeny is an event that takes place at a convergent plate margin when plate motion compresses the margin. This leads to both structural deformation and compositional differentiation of the Earth's lithosphere.
