Plate Tectonics - The Changing Earth

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The scene starts at 750 million years ago. You can see the earth change as the year numbers decrease and the arrow pointer rises through the geologic column.

The number in the lower right represents millions of years ago.
Animation built from images provided by:
Christopher R. Scotese
PALEOMAP Project
U. Texas at Arlington

The Future!!


Plate Tectonics are not a thing of the past. The earth is still changing and the continents are still moving. This is one of the major causes of earthquakes. The picture below shows how the earth may look 150 milliion years from today? Notice the position of Africa and Europe.
 

The New Pangea!


The configuration of the continents 250 million years from today.