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One Billion Years

18 July 2021
Geology

One Billion Years in 40 seconds -see the video at www.visualcapitalist.com/1-billion-years-of-tectonic-plate-movement/ .. to be precise, one billion years of tectonic plate movement as perceived by earth scientists. A staggering helter skelter view of plates converging and then moving away. Not just post Pangaea but a series of hypothetical movements of the plates prior to that break up. The link was sent in by Robert. Is it proof – or imaginary? As nobody can prove otherwise it is a matter of opinion, even if you sit on the fence. An extraordinary exercise by earth scientists, apparently convinced they know how the plates have moved over a period of one billion years.

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