CPT Q. 064: How could the Atlantic open and close with no effect on the Aleutian-Siberian platform?

Q. 64. How could the Atlantic open and close repeatedly without any effect on the Aleutian-Siberian platform, which is underlain by continental crust?

Response: I encourage you to review the sequence of continent paleolocations produced by Professor Ron Blakely, available here.¹ I provided most of these images in my answer to question 24. What you will notice is that the Aleutian-Siberian platform did not even exist as a single entity until the early part of the Cenozoic portion of earth history, corresponding to the latter stage of the Flood cataclysm. This is after most of the latest opening of the Atlantic Ocean had already occurred and certainly after the opening and closing of the Iapetus Ocean had occurred. I also strongly encourage you to read my answer to question 24 which includes my assessment of the realism of Blakey’s reconstructions.