has anybody thought of the possibility that the land masses may be subsiding? Or isn’t that permitted?
They could also be sinking...
Of course, some islands will just flip over... /s
Bingo! We have a winah.
Most of the east coast of North America is a submergent coast, characterized by long shore bars, coastal islands, inland waterways and marshy ocean-land interfaces. The west coast is an emergent coast characterized by sea cliffs, rocky shorelines, tombolos...the east coast is sinking, the west is rising.
The sinking of many islands can also be easily 'splained...coral islands and reefs are formed by living single celled critters and as the islands increase in mass, they weight the living reef and it SLOWLY sinks. Not too complicated...oh, and carbon dioxide has never been proven to have anything to do with climate change...nothing, zippo, nada.