Plate Tectonics 200Ma to Today by CR Scotese

This animation is an excerpt from Scotese and Elling (2017). The full-length version of this animation can be found at This animation focuses of the plate tectonic development of our planet during the last 200 million years. Some highlights: 200 Ma - eruption of Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP); PaleoTethyan MOR is subducted beneath Cimmeria; unknown sliver continent rifts away from northern margin of Gondwana; Mongol-Okhotsk seaway narrows; Eas
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