This animation of a new Paleo Digital elevation model, appears rather like a foetus developing. Plate tectonics actually enables life on earth
Paleo Digital Elevation model at 1 deg resolution. Map is a 2D Robinson Projection
Here is a 3D view of the violent ‘birth’ of India and the Himalayas.
True 3D rendering of continental drift.
and finally the formation and breakup of Pangea over the Southern Hemisphere.
View over South Pole, showing a static Antarctica.
Ref: Data source – PaleoDEM Resource – Scotese and Wright (2018)
Amazing! How about a projection a couple of hundred million years into the future?
Steve Crow
Fun. The three step herky jerky a couple times is interesting and may be an important clue.
Your “true 3D rendeing” is also known as the orthographic map projection.
Not true. It really is a 3D sphere rendered with a texture map of the DEM.
Great update on the last version I saw.
Moon jiggling Earth to optimise land-ocean at opposite sides to minimise tidal stress on land?
Trend is widening Atlantic which fits.