Watch: One Billion Years Of Tectonic Plate Movement In 40 Seconds
Concept of continental movement was brewing long before Plate Tectonics became a popular theory in the 60s.
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According to plate tectonic theory, the Earth’s surface is made up of slabs of rock that are slowly shifting right under our feet.
Because of this constant movement, today’s Earth looks a lot different from what it did millions of years ago. In today’s animation, Visual Capitalist’s Carmen Ang looks at the Earth’s tectonic plate movement from 1 ga (geological time for 1 billion years ago) to the present-day, via EarthByte on YouTube.
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