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Stunning Video Shows How Much Earth Has Changed in 1.8 Billion Years (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ohhhhh yes that’s it. It was also so much more movement than I was expecting! I was expecting us to go from pangea glob to continents and then some shifty shifty but man those tectonics were BUSY.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Lots and lots of convection in that mantle.

[–] waggz 2 points 3 months ago

Pangaea is only the most recent supercontinent, and therefore the most known. there are believed to be several more iterations in this cycle of combining and breaking up large landmasses.