What Did the Continents Look Like Millions of Years Ago?

Excellent article where an artist-geologist renders the history of the Earth with maps
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What Did the Continents Look Like Millions of Years Ago?

The next three sequences show the evolution of the Earth's surface in reverse, from the present day to, at the very bottom, 600 million years ago, when nearly all of the planet's landmasses were joined together in the Antarctic. The first sequence shows roughly 90 million years of backward evolution, the continents pulling apart from one another and beginning a slow drift south. They were mapped using the Mollweide projection, and, in all cases, are by Ron Blakey.

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