Plate Movement: 200 Million Years Ago to Present Day | California Academy of Sciences

Witness how Earth's forces have shaped the continents—from millions of years ago to present day.

Today’s configuration of continents is dramatically different than it was in the past. See how plate tectonics built and fragmented supercontinents—land masses made of multiple continents merged together—over the past 200 million years.

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[cobalttheprotogen]

Shout-out to the camera man for sitting in space for 200 million years

[RSTI]

"Impatient human perspective".. Perfect.

[mikeymasticator]

Showing gross latitude & longitude or at least the line of rotational axis would have been very helpful. I came to see how Antarctica moved.

[richarddecker]

I would like to see more details, from different angles to the planet. Seeing it from the North Pole, seeing it from the Pacific Ocean. The big picture from past to present, over and over from different angles three dimensional views. To fully understand and absorb what happened in the past. Maybe a little future opinions

[jakeg]

was nice to see the other 80% of earth

[jennyavilesascencio]

Thanks for sharing your investigations with all students of the world.

[joystick]

why are they constantly moving earth out of frame? by the end of the video earth is maybe 1/6th of the entire frame.... seems silly to not just keep it front and center

[peteranninos]

Interesting video but might I suggest that you re-record it with the music much lower? It overpowers your voice in places.

[AudieHolland]

Too bad about the obnoxious sound.
Either have a crisp and clear narrative and minimal background music
or just have subtitles if you like the music so much.

[izzyg]

This being my school work but more interested into the comments

[screamingmimi]

Fantastic! Warm wishes from Minnesota! ❤❤❤

[pickme]

It sure would be nice if someone combined this imagery with the "mile high tides" from the closer moon, and how far inland the ocean(s) flooded.

[arieerkkila]

Uh maybe show us something other than Africa/South America. It’s pretty obvious what happened there already.

[catgladwell]

almost unwatchable because the music was so much louder than the dialogue

[charlessudom]

Plate tectonics that occurred slowly raises several questions: what was/is the mechanism that started it? How do mountain ranges get built? How do cold rocks get "folded"? Why is there still warm magma under subduction zones?

[WWEEMPIREDITS]

I don’t know why but this is satisfying with you phone turned off

[tommyinnitisgood]

The music is even louder than your voice 💀✨

[TheTeke]

I think there's great influence of the Moon on early plate tectonics. I often think that the mass of the Moon pulls on masses within the Earths mantle, leftover from the initial impact that may have formed the Moon. After the early impact, the crust was softer and hardening as one solid piece filled with volcanoes, but no major divides. As the leftover mass within the Earth was dragged through the mantle, it accumulated a large amount of displacement that broke the crust up and forced it into large and small pieces. As the millions of years go by, the displacement becomes less and less until it has little effect, today. The broken crusts still have inertia and drift around, or course.

[gmverber]

Very nice. Would be Much Better simply with image and explanatory voice—without the needless distraction of music which interferes with following the events being described.

[jondoe-kirv]

Cool, now can you do one that includes changing sea levels?

So that we can see the land bridges, Doggerland, a much larger version of Hawaii and the Polynesian triangle, a much larger version of the Canary islands, maybe Atlantis?

Our fishing boats are constantly pulling up artifacts from humans in the oceans, and archeologists are finding cities that have been underwater for over 10 housand of years.

I know that the continental drift theory looks so good without any additional landmasses, but the evidence doesn't support this version of history.