http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm

COOL SITE! Look here for instructions on what to do with it

instruct. txt


Download all their palaeontology maps to your computer.

Load them into a suitable viewer like Irfan View in the right order and
run them as a fast slideshow with as little timespace as possible
(0.5 sec) and loop it

or merge into an animation with a suitable graphics program.


Now lean back and watch the continents change shape in fast motion!


Remember, focussing (as these maps do) on the Atlantic is arbitrary; this
does not show the true absolute movement of the continents around the
globe. This may falsify the picture, like spoke wheels turning the wrong
way round in old movies.

But what you CAN see is the relative movement of the plates.


Try to concentrate your attention on the red lines (the rifting zones).
What do you see? Mind that these are not MY maps.


								JHR