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Originally Posted by Tiluchi
But I'm far from an expert and it looks like you've put quite a bit of work into GPlates so I'd believe you if you said it's plausible with the tectonic history and allMy thought with Comey was that this scenario of being almost surrounded by subduction would be similar to Laurasia before the breakup of Pangea, where the reconstructions I've seen have subduction on most of its sides. Obviously it did eventually break up, but the reconstructions have the encircling subduction persisting for quite a while. The current Sunda plate is also bounded on 3 sides by subduction, so I thought such an arrangement could be stable for at least a little while. You have a lot more experience here than I do, so I'm very much open to being convinced otherwise.
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