1.8 Billion Years of Plate Tectonics

Follow the plates from present back into deep time with this animation constructed from Cao et al. 2024 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987124001464

Also check out these articles in The Conversation that discuss these reconstructions
https://theconversation.com/a-map-that-fills-a-500-million-year-gap-in-earths-history-79838
https://theconversation.com/witness-1-8-billion-years-of-tectonic-plates-dance-across-earths-surface-in-a-new-animation-238209

Also this paper (Seton et al. 2023) on the state play of plate tectonic reconstructions - https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00384-8

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