(December 4, 2020 at 1:02 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(December 4, 2020 at 11:22 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Not sure how that follows.North America was once blessed with a shallowish sea straight up the middle. If we can quibble one way we can quibble any way.
The continental geological structure was always continuous under the Western Interior Seaway, So the land on both sides was clearly part of the same geological structure. In fact they were so continuous they were not even delineated by any active fault structure.
Zealandia is separated from Australia by oceanic abyssal plain. The continental structure does not run under the ocean and continue on the other side.