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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[@cobalttheproto62]

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

[@ayushyadav6348]

Also for shooting for 13.8 billion years of universe

[@mr.amurpeppervine2858]

Omfg

[@TheJoemerk]

Did you just assume the camera person's gender???? HATE CRIME!!!! HATE CRIME!!!! WE HAVE A TRANSPHOBIC BIGOT ON OUR HANDS!!!! RIOT IN THE STREETS!!!!!! (Just kidding, just kidding. I just wanted to act like Portland for a sec)

[@IHaveBeenDoingTaxFraud]

​@@ayushyadav6348 and still today

[@starrio713]

That cameraman actually has a name - "God."

[@mikeymasticator5948]

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

[@davidusa47]

They can't or else it would look really silly. Google Neal Adams Growing Earth

[@richarddecker9515]

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

[@RSTI191]

"Impatient human perspective".. Perfect.

[@moaningpheromones]

shorter comments please - I'm in a rush.

[@beanapprentice1687]

@@moaningpheromones why many words when few words do trick. Do.

[@selfactualizer2099]

what? you dont🗿?

[@joystick2212]

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

[@ryanpowell9847]

Low budget and shitty animators

[@tron-8140]

Also it only ever looks at one angle of the earth. Shitty animators indeed.

[@DavidJones-dq4gf]

@@tron-8140 Well, if it did not maintain the same angle throughout (and I'm not sure that it does) how would you know if the changing pattern you're witnessing is the result of continental drift or a change in perspective?

[@ethanfreeman9243]

David Jones I get your point but it mentioned Europe at one point but we can’t even see it because the perspective never changes

[@DK-tv6rk]

@@ryanpowell9847 It takes more effort to move the earth than keep it in the center

[@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.

[@peteranninos2506]

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

[@armandocorona1170]

Props to the camera man🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@jakeg3126]

was nice to see the other 80% of earth

[@nabiledelbi5502]

Sound in this video needs complete rework. I can barely understand a word due to the worthless music/noise that supposed to be background sound.

[@jennyavilesascencio7929]

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

[@arieerkkila]

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

[@gmverber437]

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.

[@izzyg12]

This being my school work but more interested into the comments

[@catgladwell5684]

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

[@wrightwillingham4462]

It shouldn't even be aired anyway because it's nothing but a big lie. The Bible gives us all the answers. But noooooooo. Can't do that.

[@archimetropolis]

@wrightwillingham4462 k.

[@andyfriederichsen]

Can you make some changes to the audio? The music is too loud and makes it hard to hear the narrator.

[@pickme57]

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.

[@jondoe-ki6rv]

Right on! The thing that I am looking for too.

[@groaningmole4338]

The mile high tides were long over by then. This is only 200 million years ago. Tides would have been about the same as they are now.

[@charlessudom288]

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?

[@charlessudom288]

@Mark yes, I do understand that but conventional thinking with slow movement over millions of years will not produce the mountains we see with folded layers which obviously happened in a plastic state.

[@joemorgan6738]

The rocks don’t fold. Analyzing the rocks closely reveals hordes of micro fractures, which cause the appearance of plasticity. The magma in subduction zones is cooler than deeper magma, but that magma is constantly being replaced with upwelling from earths core. Also radioactive material adds heat.

[@charlessudom288]

@Joe Morgan rocks don't fold? They certainly look folded and micro fracturing is an extremely weak argument against folding. They most likely occurred as the plastic rocks cooled. Flame structures are another good example of rocks forming in a plastic state. These same sandstones in my area contain entire petrified trees crossing several sediment layers - explain that!

[@charlessudom288]

Hot magma under subduction zones has been discovered as predicted by Baumgartner; it simply shouldn't be there if plate tectonics occurred slowly because it would have cooled down after millions of years. There are many other aspects that don't make sense using the conventional models.

[@alexxela8956]

Fascinating

[@thanhcuongvuong5369]

Alex Xela m

[@dingdonghello1754]

@@thanhcuongvuong5369 ? M?? XD

[@krmaheshvit]

Thank you for the wonderful work

[@tommyinnitisgood2778]

The music is even louder than your voice 💀✨

[@derekwordley1837]

get if the irritating 'music.' it adds nothing.

[@ejs3i]

It actually adds suspension to become more intriguing

[@FractalEarth]

What software was used to create this model? Thanks

[@hansugo]

@Ibrahim Zhafir tp? what a waste

[@voetius]

It is a sort of "perpetual anticlimax" regarding the chosen points of interest and camera angles.

[@screamingmimi90]

Fantastic! Warm wishes from Minnesota! ❤❤❤

[@WWEEMPIREDITS]

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

[@AllenCoggins]

Your background noise is too loud. I did not understand some of the nariation.

[@CRMSNEXCLBR]

They’re still shifting to this day. Probably not noticeable till maybe another few millennia

[@AdamPFarnsworth]

7 years later, we need an update!

[@Sharru]

Is there an interactive model of this on the internet?

[@TheTeke0624]

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.

[@jondoe-ki6rv]

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.

[@SBS_Auto]

They wont ever do that.

[@susanlyons-joell6296]

1. Land and coastlines erode. 2. Hawaii is not its own continent, but the result of volcanoes formed as magma punches through weak points in the Pacific plate, literally burning through. As the plate moves over the hot spot, new islands formed.. 3. Same for other volcanic islands - they may or may not look the same or actually originate at this point. 4. A lot of the land masses we see today ARE bigger - underneath the surface, along the continental plate underwater until it hits the oceanic plates.

[@SBS_Auto]

@@susanlyons-joell6296 so because it was formed by volcanic origin, it doesnt constitute being a continent?

[@joemorgan6738]

@@SBS_Autoyes. Continental crust is a specific rock type that is lighter, and thicker, and thus subducts ocean crust underneath it. Hawaii will be gone as soon as the crust under it disappears (or it erodes, which will happen first), but the continents stay around due to their rock composition.

[@artstation707]

Hydroplate Theory. Bryan Nickel.

[@chasecolyard3728]

What are all the countries merged together?

[@bobroberts8500]

You wanna learn how to center an object and keep it at the right size?

[@jeremyladue4702]

i would say, plates moved quite faster awhile ago because the mantel was much hotter and since those old days it cooled a lot

[@jimmorgan6213]

What the hell good is this when they don't show where the poles are?? Good grief, get a clue! When you can't see the latitudes of the continents, the significance of the fossil record for global climate is completely opaque!

[@intreoo]

I'm confused, if the entire planet is covered with playes, then we're there ancient plate that surrounded the earth?? Like for example when India crashed into Eurasia, did it submerge an ancient plate or not

[@YouShallNotPassGo]

The plates are constantly being added to and taken away from, some parts of it become shoved under other plates and melt back into the earth's mantle while magma comes up and forms new solid crust when plates drift apart. But yes, some parts of the plates remain as crust for a very long time, which is why we get to see fossils from millions of years ago.

[@StarkVandalez]

earth expanded. its the only way.

[@linaribaldi3829]

The audio was bad , the same was the video ...

[@CesareVesdani]

Best animation ever. Earth's progress over tectonic plates.

[@justsaying7979]

Crocodiles have existed since 200 mya, crazy.

[@alan_flynn]

Looks like the continents are far to big in this animation… (or earth is too small)

[@Anatoly-Cherep]

The Earth is definitely expanding. Almost two times during the shown period of 200 mln years. Why the "scientists" are so much afraid of the hypotheses of the Earth expansion??? And they try to hide their heads in the sand and mysteries of the "plate tectonics"...

[@GrizzLeeTroll13]

Camera perspective moving out and in is distracting and only shows the split of north and south America splitting off.

[@JB-jm6lo]

Whats happening to the pacific plate during this time?

[@hansugo]

getting under Chile, country of volcanoes

[@topshelfspringwater6923]

🎉 I speculate that. The Earth actually grew in size as a result of an astaroid impact that started an atom splitting chain reaction that formed the molten center core that expanded outward. That is what caused the land mass to separate into the shapes of the continents we see today.

[@Earthbound017]

Guess we didn't need to see the eastern hemisphere huh?

[@Wild_Untamed]

Low Voice and Loud Music 😢😢

[@sarahwyatt1022]

They might collide on the other side no? They’re going a certain way which is weird

[@trailbadger1]

Get rid of the loud music

[@starrio713]

Earthquake, one of the most disastrous events for us human beings is nothing particular in the continent movement on earth.... how insignificant we are!

[@nandlalmaurya4099]

We all know it was that damn squirrel.

[@בומיפט]

If the universe is expanding isnt it safe to assume earth expanded too?and that the quantity of land has grown/expanded?seems like the same size and only movement,it doesnt add up

[@jakeg3126]

I've actually wondered that too. Wouldn't it make more sense if the earth is slowly expanding? The core of the earth is molten metal so as the core cools it has to expand, so maybe fault lines, earthquakes etc. is from the pressure of the core trying to expand.

[@countryballsinvasion]

“And that’s how the Atlantic Ocean was born”

[@j.k24]

by spinning the earth and uneven weight on 1 side, while floating on plates, it eventually crack and divide it more evenly, thats why we have a whobble to

[@UrsulaZA]

But, WHY did it start?

[@ryleighvu4513]

Anybody here from school-.-

[@Tewichar]

Me

[@tap20]

yes

[@samalander88]

No. I’m just 34 and was curious if there was a time lapse of this. Of course there is.

[@maddadd1]

lose the music.it covers up the talking.

[@paraquita6713]

This assumes uniform movement. Catastrophes can and do affect movement.

[@RangaTurk]

Just remember that the equator stays in the same place.

[@snowman374th]

I just can't figure out why uploaders put ridiculous sounds in their videos. I mean, are they entertaining the brain dead or what.. lmao..

[@brianrerko9659]

How do you know that this happened 200 million years ago and not much sooner

[@mohammadrezafarshad3994]

Music is annoyingly loud

[@brothercarlos6944]

200 million years ??? Really, where do you get your numbers from?

[@Foushemylove]

Carbon footprint, same species fossils can be found dating around the same time on the edge of different continents

[@joshygoldiem_j2799]

Dude you forgot about India

[@cesarbras9455]

Brazil!🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@joyceconnolly1065]

It was hard to hear the announcer because of the very loud background music. I stopped watching half way through.

[@ejs3i]

not being rude but instead read the subtitles?

[@joyceconnolly1065]

​@@ejs3i - Thank you. 👍

[@ejs3i]

@@joyceconnolly1065 oh, no worries.

[@richarddecker9515]

I like the google earth view of Greenland cause I believe climate change is making understanding the north, arctic circle , is very important. I don’t believe most educated people understand which side of Greenland is south, due to the use of flat maps. And the general public, in my opinion, really doesn’t understand what planet earth really looks like. Or how to get from New York City to London by plane in a direct flight

[@Rei_Caue]

The drawing looks like real life so realistic 😱

[@imaginingmimi4234]

I just liked every comment in this video. Have a great day!

[@Zaury-gw4qz]

like mine

[@shadowssecondaccount9000]

@@Zaury-gw4qz I liked urs

[@buivars]

Could you speak up? Someone is using a very loud phone numberpad from the past and also future.

[@davidkeyzer]

The cameraman 🤣

[@corncobYT]

" Look my home land! " -🦖

[@markbarber7839]

No talk of expanding earth

[@yelloman_]

This is the california academy of sciences, do you really think they would believe in such a [___] thing?

[@sigisoltau6073]

Because the earth isn't expanding.

[@qamarkazi523]

Allah ki kya Shaan hai❤😊

[@NameName-yc7kv]

Hypothesis: South America was once the opposite side of North America, the two broke apart then dfifted opposite ends same time staying coiled tailed together that became Central America.

[@rayramos2240]

REALLY

[@Captain_Brown_Beard]

No one really has a clue. This is all speculation

[@1photosonly492]

i like ya cut g

[@saitama1192]

Pov indian subcontinent - im fast as **** boiii

[@talawanda5164]

Its now proven fact that these sudden changed do not take place over a matter of millions of years but rather Hours every 26000 years. which we are about to experience another earth expansion cycle.

[@sawilliams]

It seems like the only way that this could happen is if the earth was expanding

[@snarflatful]

Dude, speak up. We can't hear you.

[@ejs3i]

not trying to be rude but you can read the subtitles??

[@notoriouswes215]

I wonder if America's West coast will ever collide with Asia/Japan

[@Anatoly-Cherep]

NEVER. Because the Earth is gradually expanding.

[@joemorgan6738]

I believe I heard that the movement will eventually reverse, so unfortunately not

[@perrylamire8453]

is their going to be an earthquake in Salem Oregon cause if so I and we all of us need to know before it happens is earth going to split and fall to pieces as their world turns

[@draz8302]

if the earth did split it would have to be more powerful than lets say a magnitude 15 earthquake, and the only thing that could split the earth would be a mars sized object.

[@Goerdzilla]

Just keep hitting the refresh button here! We’ll let ya know!

[@kalasatwater2224]

Wicked

[@freddielittle9825]

AT one time our planet Earth, world was all water no land IN THE BEGINNING AMEN ✅😇

[@ejs3i]

I guess there's many theories!

[@cecilyavitoria]

Brazil

[@matthewmilburn938]

It does seem odd to me that in 200 million years, land masses can retain a general form, and yet their plate bases can grow exponentially without either generating any significant new land masses, nor consume any of that which already is....

[@rulerworld1289]

The magma from the core of the earth is pulled out and exposed, cooling down and forming new crust

[@jasonedwards2622]

Because plate tectonics isn't what it is. The earth expanded. It was once much smaller

[@hansugo]

@@jasonedwards2622 ahahaha

[@jasonedwards2622]

@@hansugo it explains how they lineup In the Pacific. Also the youngest soil is where the plates meet

[@Anatoly-Cherep]

@@jasonedwards2622 I do agree! The Earth is definitely expanding. I feel for the supporters of the "plate tectonics" which is a so primitive and unrealistic concept!

[@eXistesTenT]

"woah..." dont they grow as fast as your fingernails do? what if our fingernails were as long as the earth?

[@k.t.5405]

min 0:32 "oh, and the Atlantic Ocean started to open up..." Riiiiiight. The pieces dont fit professor.

[@antn8387]

wheres the moon at?

[@infinitesigma6616]

Not at all how it goes down. Or, better put, how it’s gone down.

[@monte6777]

This was too fast.

[@richarddecker9515]

Thank you for using a globe instead of a flat Map

[@shoddypeasant8762]

so earthquakes in Japan just means Japan is gonna collide with china or something

[@backthisway]

Totally wrong. S W Carey and James Maxwell can put you straight.

[@bidenadministrationischina5091]

Reminds me of family guy cutaway. South America: oh there’s a lot of black ppl over there. (Splits from Africa) Africa: hey man where you going?!

[@igaparadto5921]

This animation is illusion. Pangea occupies practically half of the globe. After the continents parted, it is physically impossible for the Atlantic to form between Africa and America and the Pacific to fill the other hemisphere. Without accepting the expansion of the earth, the theory cannot be defended. Unless, as in this animation, the continents will magically shrink ;)

[@joemorgan6738]

The pacific was, and still is, being subducted. The pacific (or more specifically, panthalassa) shrinks as the Atlantic grows. No need for earth expansion.

[@Lightnings]

Who cares about this perspective? I was curious to see the Bering strait.

[@rogerdiogo6893]

Scientists keep telling us increase seismic and volcanic activity is not happening, and we keep believing 😁

[@joifainiaitoiriairi5834]

Wow spaysipaw 117