Mar 07, 2021 15:00:00

A movie that visualizes the movement of the continent from 1 billion years ago to the present day

According to the current mainstream

theory called 'plate tectonics ', the earth is composed of moving plates. A movie that visualizes 'continental drift over the past 1 billion years' derived from such plate tectonics research is released on the YouTube channel 'EarthByte' that posts videos on geology.

Plate tectonic evolution from 1 Billion years ago to the present. --YouTube


The distribution of the continent 1 billion years ago looks like this. The blue line is the border of the plate and the red line is the subduction of the plate. The blue area represents the continental lithosphere considered in previous studies, and the green area represents the continental lithosphere supported by the study published in 2021.

The earth 750 million years ago, which is thought to have been covered with ice and was

called Snowball Earth, looks like this. The continents are unevenly distributed east of the prime meridian.

540,000 years ago, there was a Cambrian explosion that caused a rapid increase in the number of species of life on Earth. The continent during this period is biased towards the Southern Hemisphere.

In the Devonian period , when creatures began to advance to land, continents began to gather in one place.

After that, the convergence of the continents continued ...

A huge continent was formed 240 million years ago. This continent is called

the Pangea continent.

After that, in the

Cretaceous , the Pangea continent gradually began to divide ...

100 million years ago, the shapes of today's African and Eurasian continents began to appear.

After that, each continent continued to move ...

It is divided into six continents, Africa, Eurasia, Oceania, North America, South America, and Antarctica, and it has become the present state of the earth.