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A billion years in 40 seconds: video reveals our dynamic planet – News – The University of Sydney

How the planet has changed in a billion years. For the first time geoscientists at the University of Sydney have produced an uninterrupted flow of Earth’s tectonic…

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Co-author, Dr Michael Tetley, who also completed his PhD at the University of Sydney, told Euronews: For the first time a complete model of tectonics has been built, including all the boundaries
On a human timescale, things move in centimetres per year, but as we can see from the animation, the continents have been everywhere in time. A place like Antarctica that we see as a cold, icy inhospitable place today, actually was once quite a nice holiday destination at the equator.
Co-author Dr Sabin…

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