On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:30:44 -0500, you wrote: >>Just for fun, before we understood about plate tectonics >>and thought that land only moved up and down, not back >>and forth, it was widely believed that the Pacific Ocean was, >>not an impact feature, but an "outpact" feature, the place >>where the Moon spun off the Earth, leaving what would be >>the largest "basin" in the Solar System (if it were true, that is).
>Hadn't heard this before but often considered the "break up" of Pangea etc., >a result of impacts. I don't know just how long people still clung to that possibility (modern plate tektonics theory coming around, IIRC, in 1969) but I remember reading books in the late 70s-early-80s (I was born in 1972) that still had the "moon ripped out of the Pacific" as a serious theory. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
