ICANT writes:
But I understand from what I have read that if the hard crust of the earth was smooth all land would be covered by 2 miles of water.
Here is just one such statement.
The earth is believed to be a cooling and contracting body. With a reduction in size the outer crust becomes wrinkled. The crests of these wrinkles protrude above the water, which fills the troughs. Without altering the relative positions of the exposed land masses and the oceanic basins, a comparatively slight increase in the depth of the latter would cause more land to be uncovered. Or were the bed of the ocean to be raised slightly, the sea would flow over the coast regions and accessible low-lying valleys. Were the solid crust uniformly smooth, it would be completely drowned by a continuous sea about two miles in depth.
But nowhere in the article doe it say or even imply that this was ever the case.
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