The term 'minerals' can be rock minerals, or coal or gas or oil. All of these are found on all the present continents which were once joined together in a supercontinent called Pangaea. The name Pangaea is from the Greek Word for'all earth' and the term 'earth' in The Bible is used for the land masses.
Pangaea was originally a small moon like body that was formed at the same time as all the planets were formed and in my book 'The Firmament of the sky dome' I have used the term Esther for this small moon which joined up with the Earth soon after the Earth had obtained its very deep global ocean. When Esther did join up with the Earth her contents spread out and it is this spreading out that formed the near circular supercontinent Pangaea. When this happened is very difficult to say but if we go by the Geological Column then it is clear that Pangaea supported several generations of life before this generation which began some 10,000 years ago according to the Bible.
We also know from the Bible that Pangaea split up into continents only about 4000 years ago and for this reason it is still possible to fit the continents together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Had the split up occurred more than say 20 million years ago the continents would have either been completely eroded away or reformed onto new shapes that would not fit together.
In my opinion the split up occurred because the supercontinent was formed on a very wet slippery surface to begin with so sliding occurred when the earth briefly lost its near spherical shape as a result of pressures from under the basaltic lithosphere on which the supercontinent was formed. My book explains this s some detail. In simple terms the continents simply slid downhill powered by their own gravity. The soft layer under the lithosphere does not have the ability to move the foundations as they are very thick and interlocked at plate boundaries.
There is no evidence in my opinion that the continents moved away from each other extremely slowly and hundreds of millions of years ago. If anyone can provide me with this I will be most interested. Earthquakes occur because individual plates can rise and fall under pressure from below and for this reason earthquakes are mainly confined to plate boundaries.
The basaltic lithosphere was split into plates partly when Esther crash landed and afterwards as a result of the heat constantly being generated in the Upper Mantle by decay of radioactive elements.
I hope the above answers all the several questions raised on this topic
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