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The study of natural history is the study of how the world has changed but Earth itself is in a constant state of flux -- because the ground beneath your feet is always moving. So if we want to know how we got here, we have to understand how "here" got here.
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References:
[ Ссылка ] → Hess’s first paper proposing seafloor spreading
[ Ссылка ] → Vine and Matthews’s first description of mirrored magnetic anomalies
[ Ссылка ] → Class notes from Stephen Nelson @ Tulane on the history of discovery and mechanisms of plate tectonics
[ Ссылка ] → Additional rundown on the mechanisms of plate tectonics
[ Ссылка ] → Biography of Marie Tharp
[ Ссылка ] → review article of pre-pangaean continents
doi:10.1038/ngeo1069 → Paper linking the P-Tr extinction to Siberian Traps volcanism lighting coal on fire
[ Ссылка ] → Very solid reconstructions of Rodinia and Pannotia
[ Ссылка ] → review of the potential and probable causes of the PTr extinction, as well as some discussion linking the TrJ extinction to the rifting of North America away from Pangaea
[ Ссылка ] → TrJ extinction linked with North American rifting
[ Ссылка ] → Future continents
[ Ссылка ] → Basic animation of continental movements
[ Ссылка ] → Animation of Pangaea Ultima (although video called it Pangaea Proxima for some reason)
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The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents
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