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Earth map: changes over half a billion years

Animated paleomaps of Phanerozoic eon

Source:Mollewide Plate Tectonic Maps

http://cpgeosystems.com/mollglobe.html

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Hadean4 billion years ago

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Archean2,5 billion years ago

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Cryogenian650 million years ago

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Ediacaran600 million years ago

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Ediacaran560 million years ago

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Cambrian540 million years ago

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Cambrian500 million years ago

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Ordovician470 million years ago

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Silurian450 million years ago

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Silurian430 million years ago

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Devonian400 million years ago

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Devonian370 million years ago

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Carboniferous340 million years ago

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Carboniferous300 million years ago

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Permian280 million years ago

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Permian260 million years ago

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Triassic240 million years ago

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Triassic220 million years ago

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Jurassic220 million years ago

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Jurassic170 million years ago

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Jurassic150 million years ago

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Cretaceous120 million years ago

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Cretaceous105 million years ago

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Cretaceous90 million years ago

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Paleocene65 million years ago

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Eocene50 million years ago

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Oligocene35 million years ago

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Miocene20 million years ago

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Pleistocene50 thousand years ago

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Holocene10 thousand years ago