CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY

The continental drift theory is the theory that once all the continents were
joined in a super-continent, which scientists call Pangaea. Over a vast period of
time, the continents drifted apart to their current locations.
Alfred Wegener first supported continental drift. Wegener’s explanation of
continental drift in 1912 was that drifting occurred because of the earth’s
rotation. This explanation and his theory were not widely accepted. Prior to
Wegener, however, many had noted that the shapes of the continents seem to
fit together, suggesting some schism in the past.

EVIDENCE FOR CONTINENTAL DRIFT

A map of the continents inspired Wegener's quest to explain Earth's geologic
history. Trained as a meteorologist, he was intrigued by the interlocking fit of
Africa's and South America's shorelines. Wegener then assembled an
impressive amount of evidence to show that Earth's continents were once
connected in a single supercontinent.
Wegener knew that fossil plants and animals such as mesosaurs, a freshwater
reptile found only South America and Africa during the Permian period, could
be found on many continents. He also matched up rocks on either side of the
Atlantic Ocean like puzzle pieces. For example, the Appalachian Mountains
(United States) and Caledonian Mountains (Scotland) fit together, as do the
Karroo strata in South Africa and Santa Catarina rocks in Brazil.
In fact, plates moving together created the highest mountains in the world, the
Himalayans, and the mountains are still growing due to the plates pushing
together, even now, , according to National Geographic.

LOCATION OF PHILIPPINES
Philippines is near the trenches so it could have not existed in the time of
Pangaea. Maybe it is produced out of tectonic activities.
Probably, the Philippines at the time of Pangaea has not been identified and do
not exist yet because there is only one continent ever recognized and
Philippines is now part of the Southeast Asian countries - one of the identified
continents among the detached pieces from Pangaea.

HOW THE ISLAND OF PHILIPPINES EMERGED?

Millions of years ago, the world was only made up of one super continent called
Pangaea. Because of continental drift and active plate tectonic. Pangaea
separated to the modern-day 7 continents.
The first Philippine island showed up about 60 million years ago. It is the island
of Mindoro and Palawan which is very near the island of present-day Taiwan.
Due to geological and plate tectonic evolution, primarily due to the Pacific plate
and Australian plate moving inward to the Asian plate; the island of Luzon and
Mindanao started to show up. It was only about 30 million years ago when the
Indian plate has started to collide with the Asian plate, then, created a tear to
which the now West Philippine Sea developed and pushing the solitary Mindoro
and Palawan Island closer to the newly developed Luzon and Mindanao islands.
The Pacific, Australian and Indian plate continued to push inward to Asia thus
creating 7, 107 islands of the now, Philippines.