Plate Movement: 200 Million Years Ago to Present Day | California Academy of Sciences

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Plate Movement: 200 Million Years Ago to Present Day | California Academy of Sciences


Witness how Earth’s forces have shaped the continents—from millions of years ago to present day.

Today’s configuration of continents is dramatically different than it was in the past. See how plate tectonics built and fragmented supercontinents—land masses made of multiple continents merged together—over the past 200 million…

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  1. If the universe is expanding isnt it safe to assume earth expanded too?and that the quantity of land has grown/expanded?seems like the same size and only movement,it doesnt add up

  2. I think there's great influence of the Moon on early plate tectonics. I often think that the mass of the Moon pulls on masses within the Earths mantle, leftover from the initial impact that may have formed the Moon. After the early impact, the crust was softer and hardening as one solid piece filled with volcanoes, but no major divides. As the leftover mass within the Earth was dragged through the mantle, it accumulated a large amount of displacement that broke the crust up and forced it into large and small pieces. As the millions of years go by, the displacement becomes less and less until it has little effect, today. The broken crusts still have inertia and drift around, or course.

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  4. Everything I read from scientist confuses me more and more and I have more questions. But when I look at the Biblical narrarative of how the earth came apart, it makes more sense than scientist make it out as fact. Firstly who observered this 200 million years ago? I would say It is just speculation. Secondly if a plate or cup is not broken, how would it come apart itself. It won't! something has to happen in order for it to break into pieces. The earth is the same. It took a catastrophic event to divide the world into continents we have today. This I believe happened about +/- 4500 years ago. We know there was a global flood, in order to get outcomes in nature like we have today. Next…Continental drift is real, if it was difting for 200 million years it would have been very far apart by now, think of it, and again what caused the break up of the landmass in the first place? Did the earth just decide to break up? I do not think so. Could it have been a global flood? Very possible. I have yet to see a proper map of pangaea like it should look. If I had to put the map together before the break up of landmass, I would say Africa was attached to Middle East and Asia, (in curve) with australia attached at side, while South America was attached to the bottom of Africa with North America and Canada around attached to Africa and Europe. We can see the distinct break off's and of course with this global catastrophic flood, all sorts of things would happen. The earth's climate would have taken many years to come to normality and in that time, new lands were born, these are known as Islands all over the world. Science and the Bible compliments each other, they do not oppose one another. A Global Catastrophic event with all nature at 10 out of 10 on ricther scale, would cause enormous damage then Gravity would take over causing continental drift and therefore gravity and the atmosphere gets us to the map we have today. A broken world that once was altogether and it was not millions or billions of years, that is mere speculation and not fact. No man has observed it, so how could scientist be so sure. Where' the evidence of evidence that gives full proof, the conclusions or conclusions we study at universities etc? We blindly will believe anything, if it is convincing enough.

  5. This animation is illusion. Pangea occupies practically half of the globe. After the continents parted, it is physically impossible for the Atlantic to form between Africa and America and the Pacific to fill the other hemisphere. Without accepting the expansion of the earth, the theory cannot be defended. Unless, as in this animation, the continents will magically shrink 😉