The video above begins 560 million years ago [mya], so you miss Rodinia, the drag queen supercontinent formed one billion years ago. Mind you, that was before the ozone layer, so the landmass was barren. It broke up around 750 mya. The animation shows the same events twice: first in nineteen seconds, then again over two minutes with helpful titles. Look how late Florida forms.
Below, Patricia Clarkson explains it all. Very helpful, but both videos would be better if they incorporated Earth's enormous changes in climate: 716 mya the entire planet was under ice and only 50 mya even the Arctic was balmy, with palms.
[Make sure to click away the white ad boxes when they appear.]
Love it! It does put our life span into perspective along with my 465 million year old fossil from the Ordovician Period when the last big land mass was forming which eventually began to split into today's continents 115 million years ago.
Posted by: D | April 08, 2012 at 07:11 PM
That's the kind of image that i really thing is super image like. If more images very real like this were out there we'd be super full of graet images in the world.
Posted by: not fake | November 03, 2013 at 11:50 PM