CompuServe Messages

Don If all the sections of crust in the pacific are from separations of crust due to rifting then each in sequence was cut away by a different older rift from an earlier time. Any part carved off would be equidistant from the parent continent like the Cook Islands Manihiki Plateau is roughly the same distance from the Mid Ridge as S. America….so this fits well. We have a lot of other similar features to explain as we move further west. There doesn't appear to be enough time in the basin to account for all the other formations. What explains this? Kamron