Death of a Super Continent:

Pangea is No More

Report by

R.Adm. RM Wey & F.Comm DL Wey

OSR: SFS – SFC DOSR: SFS-SFC

In an effort to keep the fleet current in ‘all’ of the latest and most interesting discoveries in the sciences, the Office of Scientific Research believed the following to be among such:

So powerful was the event, its magnitude was such that it split the ancient super-continent ‘Pangea’, and created what is known as the Atlantic ocean; spewing millions of square miles of lava, blanketing the earth and killing most of the life-forms existing at that time.

Reviewing hundreds of basalt outcrops that border the Atlantic coastal regions, evidence was found to suggest a titanic eruption some 200 million years ago. The force of the blast set the fractured plates of the once mighty land mass adrift, gradually creating the gulf that would become the Atlantic.

Through the study of the fossil records, researchers have determined that over a period of a few million years following the eruption over half of all the marine species existing at that time were made extinct.

The same number of reptiles and other land animals met the same fate. It is this event that set the stage for the age of the dinosaurs and the evolution of the first mammalians.

Further evidence suggests that there is greater validity to be added to the theory that mass extinction’s [which have been a plague on the earth since life first emerged], are the result of the internal volcanics of the planet itself, and not primarily as a result of collisions with asteroid’s or comets.

This newly identified eruption has been termed: the Central Atlantic Magmatic Providence, its center being that of what is now Florida. Few things exist with so great an amount of evidence in the geologic record as the titanic [and unexplained] cataclysms that seem to bring life on our world to the brink of extinction with regularity.

Two other events have brought about similar results: In one of the most devastating to be found in the fossil record [at the juncture of the Permian and Triassic periods some 250 million years ago, and the other 65 million years ago, which caused the demise of the dinosaurs.

Though not all caused ‘directly’ by cataclysmic volcanic activity, there is sufficient evidence to suggest that such activity occurred as a result of other occurrences in the planets geological history.

More research will be conducted and further updates provided.