The search for Atlantis has been going on for centuries. I think that it broke up with some parts under water and some remaining above. Lemuria, however, I believe sunk in the Pacific.
When you look into a hot cauldron of a furnace ladle in a steel mill you will see islands of slag forming on the top of the fiery liquid mass. As bits or rock fused together to form Earth, the lumps and pieces after the big bang joined in a ball of gas, with matter and chemical reactions going on. A bubbling mass which cooled as it traveled.
Two main solids appear, named in deep history legend as Atlantis and Lemuria. Two mega civilisations evolved and they all lived in peace according to legend. Then, so the story goes, the Earth contracted a bit more, due to cooling and compacting, just like bubbling molten metal goes from liquid to solid on cooling. Then more land masses formed up on their on rafts or plates. The plates bumped and bashed the big two land masses and eventually broke them up. Some of the newer plates washed over Lemuria and sunk most of it, which, I think became the Polynesian and Micronesian Islands dotted all over the Pacific with Australia and New Zealand being two big bits left above water.
The other big bit, Atlantis, stayed on the surface and lost some land at the edges with one huge bit breaking off to become the Americas from Canada to the tip of Tiera del Fuiego. As the Earth cooled further the chemical reactions produced water from the Hydrogen and Oxygen being given off by those reactions. This water caused erosion too. The whole thing is still going on today. Although Space is a vacuum it is cold. A hot body moving through the cold loses heat as it moves. Without friction, there is no rubbing to create heat, so it is a loss only situation. Therefore the ball contracts and tightens up.
As bits cool under the surface they want to rise, which pushes the surface plates about. Like someone breaking through ice from underneath. Best example I've seen is a nuclear submarine using the conning tower to break through thin ice. It breaks through but the ice that it moves has got to go somewhere so it overlaps. That is plate tectonics as far as I am concerned.
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