A Billion Years in 40 Seconds: Mesmerizing Video Reveals the Evolution Our Dynamic Planet – SciTechDaily

New research helps understand how plate tectonics powers life on Earth.

• Plate tectonics are responsible for the deep-carbon and deep-water cycles.
• Arrangement of continents has changed sea level in the past.
• The evolution of life is modified by tectonics — continents are rafts with evolving species that mix when continents combine.
• A growing focus on renewable and low-carbon technologies will mean we need to find more copper and other resources. To find these deposits our new models of plate tectonics…

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