Antarctica was once at the equator. These are some of the findings that you can see in the following video: 1 billion years of continental drift in 40 seconds.
The video is the result of research published in the March 2021 issue of Earth-Science Reviews. For the first time it has been built a complete model of tectonics, including all limits.
Continental drift
The main author and creator of the video, Andrew Merdith He began working on the project while he was a PhD student with Dietmar Müller of the EarthByte geosciences group at the University of Sydney.
The model will help scientists understand how the climate has changed, how ocean currents were altered, and how nutrients flowed from deep within the Earth to stimulate biological evolution.
The Continental drift It is the displacement of continental masses with respect to each other. This theory It was developed in 1912 for the german Alfred Wegener based on various empirical-rational observations, but it was not until the 1960s, with the development of plate tectonics, when the movement of the continents could be adequately explained. Life, quite simply, on Earth would not exist without plate tectonics.
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The uninterrupted movement of the Earth's tectonic plates during the last 1 billion years in 40 seconds
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