Incredibly Detailed, Billion-Year-Old Ancient Maps Of Earth Produced By Researchers

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The underlying tectonics of Australia. EarthByte

Our planet has changed rapidly and violently through geological time, its continents and oceans fracturing and forming in incredible cycles. Maps of the ancient Earth have been made many times before, but a team of researchers at the University of Sydney has produced one of the most detailed, open-source digital reconstructions of our home world. GPlates version 2.0, due for release this month, will no doubt be humanity’s most striking record of our planet’s history to date.