Plate Tectonics

[Wathen1955]

The Geo-scientists from the University of Sydney, spent four years reconstructing how landmasses and oceans changed over the last billion years. As part of a recent study, they animated those changes into the short video below.

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The animation shows green continents lumbering across oceans, which are represented in white. The Ma at the top of the video is geologic speak for 1 million - so 1,000 Ma is 1 billion years ago. The various color lines represent different types of boundaries between tectonic plates: Blue-purple lines represent divergent boundaries, where plates split apart; red triangles indicate convergent boundaries, where plates move together; and grey-green curves show transform boundaries, where plates slide sideways past each other.

"These plates move at the speed fingernails grow, but when a billion years is condensed into 40 seconds, a mesmerizing dance is revealed," Sabin Zahirovic, a University of Sydney geologist who co-authored the new study, said in a press release.

[Aerovette]

What is now North America has travelled the entire globe.

[DJ_Critterus]

There's a show I think on Prime called Voyage of the Continents. Very interesting mini series.

[snide]

I'm calling bullshit.

[ratflinger]

Sorry, thought this was going to be about spinning plates or something else useful


But alas, it's just science

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by ratflinger

Sorry, thought this was going to be about spinning plates or something else useful


But alas, it's just science

Originally Posted by snide

I'm calling bullshit.

C'mon, man. Follow the science.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by ratflinger

Sorry, thought this was going to be about spinning plates or something else useful


But alas, it's just science

[ratflinger]

Snappy reply

[Mike Mercury]

Originally Posted by Wathen1955

The Geo-scientists from the University of Sydney, spent four years reconstructing how landmasses and oceans changed over the last billion years. As part of a recent study, they animated those changes into the short video below.

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I watched that entire YT video. All I could think at the end was

IB4 Snide.

[Aerovette]

[snide]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

I watched that entire YT video. All I could think at the end was

IB4 Snide.

Fail, you did.