Where did the continents come from?

[Idolater]

Earth is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada, rare evidence shows | CNN

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This article talks about lithespheric foundering, which I don't understand, but it mentions in there how oceanic and continental crust is different, namely that the continental crust is less dense.

Continental crust I understand, is granitic. The thing with granitic minerals is that you can't just take molten rock and let it cool and get granite. Instead you'd get basalt, which is the oceanic crust. So the article suggests that lithospheric foundering made the continents, but doesn't explain how this process could form the unique features of granite, where different compounds form distinct crystals within the rock like how granite is. It doesn't address that feature of granite at all, it more says that the lithospheric foundering, which it likens to peeling, separates denser rock from the less dense continental rock.

One of the big mysteries to me personally is where all the rest of the continental crust went, because one idea is that (and I think is Dr. Walt Brown's idea too) the Earth used to be fairly uniformly covered in granitic continental crust, but that the Flood is the reason only about 30% is left. The rest either all blew into Outer Space, or was melted down and became basaltic oceanic crust.

So any information or insight on where continental crust either came from or went, is on topic here.

 

[Derf]

Earth is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada, rare evidence shows | CNN

lite.cnn.com

This article talks about lithespheric foundering, which I don't understand, but it mentions in there how oceanic and continental crust is different, namely that the continental crust is less dense.

Continental crust I understand, is granitic. The thing with granitic minerals is that you can't just take molten rock and let it cool and get granite. Instead you'd get basalt, which is the oceanic crust. So the article suggests that lithospheric foundering made the continents, but doesn't explain how this process could form the unique features of granite, where different compounds form distinct crystals within the rock like how granite is. It doesn't address that feature of granite at all, it more says that the lithospheric foundering, which it likens to peeling, separates denser rock from the less dense continental rock.

One of the big mysteries to me personally is where all the rest of the continental crust went, because one idea is that (and I think is Dr. Walt Brown's idea too) the Earth used to be fairly uniformly covered in granitic continental crust, but that the Flood is the reason only about 30% is left. The rest either all blew into Outer Space, or was melted down and became basaltic oceanic crust.

So any information or insight on where continental crust either came from or went, is on topic here.

We attended an ICR event in Colorado where Tim Cleary took us to see what he thought might be original granite crust material under Pikes Peak. It wasn't striated, but was solid for 20 to 30 vertical where we could see, with no intrusions of other rock.

 

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Continental crust I understand, is granitic. The thing with granitic minerals is that you can't just take molten rock and let it cool and get granite. Instead you'd get basalt, which is the oceanic crust.

Melted granite does not become basalt. They are made of different elements. Melted granite becomes Rhyolite.

 

[Derf]

Here's the article:

Garden of the Gods: A Product of the Flood

One of the most breathtaking sites along the Colorado Front Range is located within the city limits of Colorado Springs. Here, multiple sheets of orange and white sandstones shoot right out of the ground in front of the dramatic backdrop of Pikes Peak. Known as Garden of the Gods, this park was...

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And here's the pertinent paragraphs:
Great Unconformity Exposed

Just south of the park and west of the town of Manitou Springs is an exposure of the Great Unconformity, a global erosional surface. Here we see the Flood’s lowermost sandstones resting on a nearly planar erosional surface (the unconformity). This boundary marks a major gap in the conventional geologic record between Precambrian rocks below and younger sedimentary rocks above. Below this surface is the pink Pikes Peak granite, which is possibly from the creation week.

The worldwide extent of this erosional surface baffles uniformitarian scientists. Why is this near-planar boundary found at the same level on every continent? This question remains one of the great mysteries of evolutionary geology.2

The worldwide Flood is the best explanation for the global nature of the Great Unconformity. To make this extensive erosional surface, a significant portion of the Precambrian surface material and some of the pre- Flood sedimentary rocks must have been stripped off a majority of the world’s continents simultaneously. This was followed by the immediate deposition of the overlying sands.3 The erosion may have been caused by torrential rains that occurred in the first 40 days of the Flood and/or by the erosive action of tsunami-like waves propagating across parts of the continents.

 

[Nick M]

9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

Was this a real question? I always presuppose you read the scripture before asking. The sea was in one place and the land in another. And interestingly the heathens agree there was a one place of land. And of course the flood greatly changed the surface of the earth.

So the article suggests

It is reasonable to make our best guess to specifics when they are not given, based on what we see. Here is your source material for reference if needed. I recommend the hard copy to go with the NKJV you don't read.