Animated Maps: Tectonic Plate Movement

This set of 41 paleo-elevation models (DEM) represents the changing paleogeography of the oceans and continents back to 540 million years ago (Cambrian-Precambrian Period). The snapshots of ancient elevation and bathymetry, based on the interpretation of the rock record, were estimated for time intervals 5 million years apart. The digital elevation model starts when Pangea split into the supercontinents of Laurasia (northern hemisphere) and Gondwana (southern hemisphere). These two continents subsequently s