The surf is timeless. It knows no temporal boundaries. It does not stop according to human events. It cannot be destroyed (although it certainly can be polluted). Whereas things have changed in human society over the course of a thousand years, the chemical makeup of the ocean has not changed. More rocks have been ground to sand due to the ceaseless flow and ebb of thousands of miles of where water meets land.
That there are parts of the ocean that are miles deep is astounding! They have never seen the light of day. Continents move, buckle, pushing land up here, and the water goes there, but the same principle of water conforming to earth remains the same. Water became ice at certain points in global history, water moved from rivers and coastal wetlands across continents, but eventually always found some kind of sea.
Take the United States, for example, which saw one of the more violent changes in the Paleolithic era. Rodinia was a supercontinent of North America, and Gondwanaland, Australia and Antarctica. When they split from each other, most of the Western U.S was under water. The belt of western states we know today formed through hundreds of millions of years of accretion. As Western oceanic plates pushed against the North American Craton, the Rocky Mountains formed and Eastern facing waters formed low-lying swamps. The area from Colorado to Utah went from a salt lake to a dried up sandy beach. The only thing that changed was where the water was.
In another 250 million years it is predicted that a new supercontinent will form, Pangea Ultima. Do you think anything will be left?
So next time you're surfing in California or relaxing in front of your Florida beachfront condo, just remember how transitory all of this life is. A hundred million years ago California was underwater with just a few off land islands, much like Madagascar. Florida was significantly colder, and about twice its size of today; the Florida platform drops about 10,500 feet to the Gulf floor about a hundred miles from the present day western coast. Think about how despite continental drift there are always oceans and the forming of sands on the edge of continents; it has been this way for hundreds of millions of years, and will continue to be for hundreds of millions of years more. Pretty hard to fathom, isn't it?
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