Watch how the continents have shifted over the past 100 million years

The transformation of Earth’s land masses from the Cretaceous period onwards have been reconstructed in unprecedented detail down to a 10 kilometre resolution

The changing shape of Earth’s landscapes over the past 100 million years has been reconstructed in more detail than ever before.

“Earth’s surface is like the living skin of our planet – it connects all the different systems, the physical, chemical, biological, and it’s constantly evolving,” saysSalles and his colleagues modelled the past 100 million years of surface changes on Earth by pulling together the most up-to-date existing models of tectonics, climate, the movement of sediment along rivers from mountains to oceans, and other processes that shape the landscape.

The team validated its model by confirming it could reproduce present-day landscape dynamics, for example the sediment load that is carried along modern-day rivers.

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