1.8 Billion years of Tectonic Plates movement animation.

imhotep

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    It starts with the map of the world familiar to everyone. Then India rapidly moves south, followed by parts of Southeast Asia as the past continent of Gondwana forms in the Southern Hemisphere.

    Around 200 million years ago (Ma or mega-annum in the reconstruction), when the dinosaurs walked the earth, Gondwana linked with North America, Europe and northern Asia to form a large supercontinent called Pangea.
    Then, the reconstruction carries on back through time. Pangea and Gondwana were themselves formed from older plate collisions. As time rolls back, an earlier supercontinent called Rodinia appears. It doesn't stop here. Rodinia, in turn, is formed by the break-up of an even older supercontinent called Nuna about 1.35 billion years ago.

    The first evidence for complex cells with nuclei—like all animal and plant cells—dates to 1.65 billion years ago.



    Published by Xianzhi Cao et al.
     

    P Gunaratnm

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    ඉස්සරහටත් මේවා move වෙයි නේද.හිමාල කන්ද හැදිලා තියෙන්නෙත් ඔය දෙක එකට වදිද්දි වෙන්න ඇති නේද?
     

    imhotep

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    ඉස්සරහටත් මේවා move වෙයි නේද.හිමාල කන්ද හැදිලා තියෙන්නෙත් ඔය දෙක එකට වදිද්දි වෙන්න ඇති නේද?
    About 40 and 50 million years ago, when two large landmasses, India and Eurasia, driven by plate movement, collided. Both these lndmasses had about the same rock density, one plate could not be subducted under the other. The pressure of the impinging plates could only be relieved by thrusting skyward, contorting the collision zone, and forming the jagged Himalayan peaks.
     

    dananjaya696

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    ඉස්සරහටත් මේවා move වෙයි නේද.හිමාල කන්ද හැදිලා තියෙන්නෙත් ඔය දෙක එකට වදිද්දි වෙන්න ඇති නේද?
    කාගෙ දෙක එකට වදිනකොටද? උබේනම් වෙන්න බෑ තොගෙ දෙකක් නෑනේ. :lol:
     

    Asmodeus

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    This is quite interesting to see what the world was like ages ago and the future as well. And I've noticed that the current geologists use the term plate tectonics rather than the continental drift that Alfred Wegener proposed.

    Continental Drift
    Plate Tectonics
    Proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912Developed in the mid-20th century
    Suggested continents moved through the oceanic crustExplains movement through the lithosphere via tectonic plates
    Not well understood during Wegener's timeDriven by convection currents in the mantle
    Fossil and rock similarities across continents, fit of continents, paleoclimatic evidenceSeafloor spreading, magnetic striping, earthquake and volcanic activity patterns
    Primarily focused on the movement of continentsIncludes the movement of both continents and oceanic plates
    Revolutionized understanding of Earth's history and geologyProvides a framework for understanding various geological phenomena

    https://thisvsthat.io/continental-drift-vs-plate-tectonics
     

    Asmodeus

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    එක එකාගෙ හිතලු.
    There is some evidence to prove this concept actually happened: 1. fossil evidence, identical fossils discovered from South Africa and South America; between those continents, the entire Atlantic Ocean acts as a huge barrier, so how did this happen? 2. Evidence is that some geographic anomalies are there, like the limestone, ancient coral, and again, ancient fossils on the top of the Himalayan range. Ancient seabed located in the middle of Sahara desert. And middle of Australia has ancient sea bed that has some fossil evidences of earliest plants.
     

    Mard

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    There is some evidence to prove this concept actually happened: 1. fossil evidence, identical fossils discovered from South Africa and South America; between those continents, the entire Atlantic Ocean acts as a huge barrier, so how did this happen? 2. Evidence is that some geographic anomalies are there, like the limestone, ancient coral, and again, ancient fossils on the top of the Himalayan range. Ancient seabed located in the middle of Sahara desert. And middle of Australia has ancient sea bed that has some fossil evidences of earliest plants.

    Yes, accept the evidence. But whole amination and the progression and the movements is like, illustrations of dinosaurs.