Branching Across the Continents

According to the prophet Joseph Fielding Smith who crossed the continent, "The Jacob's saga metaphor in Chapter 5 of his book is one of the best figures of all time" (Smith 4: 141). In a word comparable to the best literature, Xeno's olive tree allegory effectively used the symbolic meaning of everyone to write the history of the family of Israel to write for thousands of years. In addition to distraction and the historical values ​​of Israeli meetings, this fable also includes teachings about apostasy and the millennium.

There are 7.3 billion people living on Earth, and more than 1.5 million animals, insects and plants spread through seven continents. The earth is not necessarily included on seven continents. Around 175 million years ago, all seven continents were connected to a super continent surrounded by a very large ocean. This supercontinent is called Pangea. It began to slowly divide into seven parts and drifted where we are now. However, there is no rest on the mainland. Over time, they move over time and move to the new continent within the next several hundred million years.

Continental drift is the theory that the continents of the Earth move relative to each other in geological time, so it seems that it "drifts" through the ocean floor. The speculation that the mainland "drifts" was first proposed by Abraham Ortelius in 1596. This concept was developed independently and more comprehensively by Alfred Wegener in 1912, but his theory was rejected by many people due to the lack of a mechanism of motivation. Arthur Holmes later proposed a mechanism mantle convection. The concept of continental drift was later included in the theory of plate tectonics. It describes the movement of the continent by riding the Earth's lithosphere plate.

By moving the continent, plate tectonics can also create diverse environments that cause evolution. For millions of years the continent was drifting off the surface of the earth, moving from one climate zone to another climate zone. Without the slab structure, the earth can not possess diverse geography, which provides a wide range of habitats. The plate structure is also the cause of the seabed hydrothermal vent. In the vicinity of the plate boundary, seawater can permeate into cracks, and magma heats it up to several hundred degrees and blows hot water back into the sea. The hydrothermal vents discovered in the late 1970s were home to various ecosystems, and some scientists believe that similar pores caused the first life on the planet.