Witness 1.8 billion years of tectonic plates dance across Earth’s surface in a new animation
- Written by Alan Collins, Professor of Geology, University of Adelaide
Two tectonic plates meet in Thingvellir National Park, Iceland.VisualProduction/ShutterstockUsing information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years.
It is the first time Earth’s geological record has been used like this, looking so far back in...





