2024/09/05

Geologist Narrates “Beautiful Continental Dance” of Shifting Plate Tectonics

● 05/09/2024
“The reconstruction carries on back through time. Pangaea and Gondwana were themselves formed from older plate collisions. As time rolls back, an earlier supercontinent called Rodinia appears. It doesn’t stop here.”
– Geologist Alan Collins, narrating an animation showing “a beautiful continental dance” of the last 1.8 billion years of shifting plate tectonics on Earth. Collins and a team of researchers led by Xianzhi Cao recently published the visualization in Geoscience Frontiers.
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