Downloadable animation of pangea

Department of the Interior and has primary responsibility for geological hazards, resources, etc. The Educational Multimedia Visualization Center emvc. Teachers on the Leading Edge orgs. Grade 2 ESS1. C: The History of Planet Earth. Some events happen very quickly; others occur very slowly, over a time period much longer than one can observe.

Grade 4 ESS1. Local, regional, and global patterns of rock formations reveal changes over time due to earh forces, such as earthquakes. The presence and location of certain fossil types indicate the order in which rock layers were formed. The locations of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, ocean floor structures, earthquakes, and volcanoes occur in patterns.

Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in bands that are often along boundaries between continents and oceans. Major mountain chains form inside continents or near their edges. Maps can help locate the different land and water features areas of the Earth.

B: Nature Hazards. A variety of hazards result from natural processes e. Humans cannot eliminate the hazards but can take steps to reduce their impacts. Middle School ESS2. B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions Maps of ancient land and water patterns, based on investigations of rocks and fossils, make clear how Earth's plates have moved great distances, collided, and spread apart.

B: Natural Hazards Mapping the history of natural hazards in a region, combined with an understanding of related geologic forces can help forecast the locations and likelhoods of future events.

High School ESS3. B: Natural Hazards Natural hazards and other geologic events have shpated the course of human history; [they] have significantly altered the sizes of human populations and have driven human migrations. Asthenosphere is liquid students are only familiar with liquid convection, not solid convection, many secondary education earth science films also specifically refer to a molten internal layer.

Screenshot, see full interactive version below. Fortunately, Massimo Pietrobon via Tomas Slavkovsky from Melown , has done just that, creating a fully interactive Pangaea map with modern international borders that allows you to explore the whole earth. Please make an Expanding Earth smaller Earth version.

Australia should border South America. I would like latitude lines. Longitude lines would be OK too, but not so important. What a load of utter bollox….. You should show respect for their hard work!

Something is distorted in the scaling of the land compared to the globe. California: Poway Conglomerate Dispersal, animation series. Oligocene: Sedimentation on a River Floodplain, animation. Miocene: Rifting and rotation, Volcanism, Upwelling, and Sedimentation, animation. Plio-Pleistocene: Oblique Shortening, animation.

Evolution of Pygmy Mammoths, S. Plio-Pleiestocene Shortening, Structural Evolution, animation. Migration of oil into anticlines, animation. Most of the downloads require quicktime to play Downloads Welcome to our download page. Dates indicate times of most recent revision of products. The animation illustrates the movements of the lithospheric plates from million years in the past through to the present, as well as projections of continental movements 30 million years into the future.

Click on button to see the position of lithospheric plates today. Rollover the continents to see the names of the lithospheric plates.