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Watch the last billion years of Earth’s tectonic plate movement in just 40 seconds – Report Door
A map of Earth’s current tectonic plate boundaries. Eric Gaba for Wikimedia CommonsThe land mass that became Antarctica once sat along the Equator. Over
A map of Earth’s current tectonic plate boundaries. Eric Gaba for Wikimedia Commons
The land mass that became Antarctica once sat along the Equator. Over Earth’s history, several supercontinents have broken up and come back together like the Backstreet Boys.
Our current seven continents and five oceans are the result of more than 3 billion years of planetary evolution, the tectonic plates crisscrossing atop the semi-solid ooze of Earth’s core.
But charting the precise movements of those plates over…
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