Continental Drift

The continents were, at one time, all pulled together creating one super continent called "Pangaea". Eventually they spread out.

Graphic of two globes same size, where continents drift

The Ball-of-Light Particle Model predicts:

the Galaxy is an exploding ball-of-light, not a contracting primordial cloud of interstellar gas and dust
the core of the Galaxy ejected the stars within it
early in the history of the Galaxy, the Galaxy was spinning much faster, and now its spin has slowed down
the sun was, at one time, much closer to the core of the galaxy
the planets were created either from collapsing clouds of dust and gas ejected from the sun early in its history, and/or from ejected balls-of-light that gradually cooled to make the planets
early in the history of the Solar System, the orbital velocities of the planets was much higher
due to the higher orbital velocities, and due to the Solar System's higher velocity in the early Galaxy, the early Solar System experienced a much higher gravitational field than it does now

If the earth was experiencing an extremely high gravitational field -- extremely high by today's standard -- then it is possible the continents did not simply "drift apart." The Ball-of-Light Particle Model predicts they "spread out" as the size of the earth swelled.

Graphic of two globes different size, where continents spread

Pulsating Globe

As the orbit of the earth has changed through history, it has created greater and lessor forces on the crust of the earth. I believe this has created a very long-term pulsating in the size of the earth's crust. Below is an animation I created to demonstrate concepts for a pulsating star. This animation could also be used to visualize the pulsating of the earth's crust over a very long time period.

Personally, I believe that the solar activity has been dominate in changing the ocean level over medium level time periods of hundreds and thousands of years, but the changing orbit and gravitational field has had the dominate role on ocean levels over hundreds of thousands and millions of years.

(See also, Planet Formation)

(See also, Cone Nebula)

(See also, Changing Planetary Orbits)

(See also, external link to Ocean Level Changes on the Heliometeorolgy page.)