Visualizing Continental Drift

GPlates is a 3d animation which shows how the globe has evolved over millions of years. The map shows the Earth's shifting plate tectonics from 240 1000000 years agone upwardly until the introduce day.

As the animation plays through yous tin scout how the post-Pangaea globe has formed equally that super-continent drifted apart. The electrical flow country majority is shown beneath the shifting tectonic plates. You tin thence uncovering how the positions of the continents together with countries nosotros know today convey moved some over the centuries due to the rifts inwards plate tectonics.

GPlates includes an selection to persuasion the same animation on superlative of a 2nd map. It likewise includes controls which let yous to conform the speed of the animation playback.


If yous desire an thought nearly how the rifts inwards plate tectonics together with continental drift has effected the Earth's continents together with then yous should likewise cheque out 'What Did the World Look Like'. This interactive 3d globe from Dinosaur Pictures travels dorsum 600 1000000 years to the dawn of multi-cellular life on Earth.

Of class that's only the beginning, What Did the World Look Like genuinely allows yous to persuasion how our planet has looked throughout the entire history of life on Earth. Here's what the globe looked similar inwards the Jurassic era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth:


Using What Did the globe Look Like yous tin persuasion 3d globes from throughout Earth's history. The site includes ii menus, which let yous to alter the era visualized on the interactive 3d globe. The carte du jour at the top-middle of the page allows yous to pick out an era past times age. The carte du jour at the superlative correct allows yous to pick out a persuasion based on the stages of life on globe together with past times geologic period.