Plate Tectonic Evolution of North America - Scotese Animation
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- This animation shows the plate tectonic and paleogeographic evolution of North America from 200 million years ago to the present-day. North America was originally part of thee supercontinent of Pangea. About 200 million years ago, Pangea rifted apart. To the east of North America, the Central Atlantic opened. About 150 million years ago, South America rifted away from North America opening the Gulf of Mexico.
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Scotese, C.R., and Scotese, J.D., 2006. Plate Tectonic Evolution of North America, PALEOMAP Project, Evanston, IL • Plate Tectonic Evoluti...
Prof. Christopher R. Scotese
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Ancient Earth: Breakup of Pangea
Thomas L. Moore
Category: Education
Updated: Mar 19, 2012
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I've watched this several times already and still love it. Being a Physical Geographer/Geomorphologist, it gives me warm fuzzies!
Today I live on the western shore of the uplifted and fractured bottom of the Cache Creek Sea. My house sits on ground that used to be in some tropical part of the West Pacific, and is now in Washington State. When I was in high school, nobody had any idea of this. What a world!
And in northern Australia, there is land that probably part of WA state. I live on the Kitsap and it's fascinating and awesome to think of how much of the state is actually exotic terrane. And that the Columbia River Basalt Group is not only the work of the Yellowstone Hotspot but that the hotspot itself used to be underneath Vancoiuver Island/Olympic Peninsula at one time (about 50,000,000 years ago).
Thanx 😎I'm here because professor Nick Zetner mentioned your maps😎
4:39
Michigan: I must make my entrance
The movement is probably fairly accurate. Only small pieces of the actual positions of landmasses is probably accurate. We just don't know what most of it actually looked like. However, this video is extremely interesting and gives a good overall picture of what happened. Good job.
It's amazing how large the Western Interior Seaway was. It's equally amazing how extensive was the uplift that resulted in its disappearance.
At one time I lived at what would have been the western end of that seaways and these days the prroximate elevation is about 5000 feet above sea level.
* uplift and ice age
My sister in Missouri would'nt believe her house was once under a shallow sea till I went out in the yard and picked up an excelent fossil brachiopod.
Part of the water for the Interior Seaway and other ocean intrusions came from uplift at the speafing centers. The rest came from the lack of continental ice caps. Even today we have large areas that are interior seaways. The Java Sea for one.
So cool to see how old the Appalachian mountain range is
He just didn' start it early enough, back in the Silurian we had some nice sea coast and beautiful reefs across the northern third of the state. I'm not quite old enough to remember them, but when the wooly mammoth were tramping around Fort Wayne, now that was spectacular. And the run-off from that last glacier, even down New Harmony pretty chill......
From what I've heard, they were once bigger than the Himalayas are today!!!
Thanks
I like to tell people that this (I'm in Virginia) was once the center of the earth! because it was basically the suture line between N. America and Gondwanaland that formed Pangea. I'm a little confused on the age though, some of the rocks in the Appalachians are a Billion years old, but maybe are exposed plutons from erosion.
paul joe Cocomo idk
Thank you for including the glacial growth and retreat. I enjoyed the video very much.
Both Scotese and Scorsese... with epic plot development and character formation. Good job.
I like that this simulation focuses only on North America. It omits other areas of the world which could be distracting in order to see the detail of N.A. I also like that the ice age that created the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay was included. It gives a more layered story of the evolution of the continent.
The only continent that matters really let's be honest...
Not depicting Siletzia whatsoever makes this a bit flawed.
😂😂😂f 1:33
It’s there but not labelled. You can see it fill in the big divot on the West Coast around 50 mya as a piece of it floats north (Yakutat.) It might be that there is a lot of stuff going on there about that time. I would have liked to see it in final coloration by 55 mya, but its not my video.
Central ocean then one huge inland sea then 2 smaller seas then one salt lake then
Mormons!. Brilliant 🌴
It's pretty cool how you can see the farallon plate disappear little by little
This is exactly what I've been wanting to see. Thank you so much!
This is so beautiful that I almost cried!
Would've been nice to put the dinosaur train route/stations to give us a little context
The song is "There's Probably No Time" by Chris Zabriskie👍
Thank you
Thank you
I noticed the Chixulub Crater on the Yucatán Peninsula.
I was watching for the meteor and missed it! Replay!
Ashton Lovell which one is that
Enc3ladus - QuikScience Yeah! I thought i saw that. Wasn’t sure...
Ashton Lovell Did we see two there at around 190?
Hey Christopher I really enjoy your work. Thank you for posting these videos. I am however curious about the nature of the boundary of the Eurasian and the North American plates in N.E. Siberia. Are they diverging, converging or slipping past one another? On most maps they are either at the edge of the map or not clearly defined. I would love to hear your opinion.
Christopher: A few notes:
1.The Rocky Mountains did not begin to rise up until about 65 MillionYears Ago,...and I said "begin"!
2 Geologists have "discovered that the geology of Southern Alaska matches the Geology of California! As Alaska rolls upward, it drags the coast of North America UPWARD, in a slip-fault along the coast!
3. 60 Million Years Ago South America sat directly along the Pacific Fault in the Southern Pacific!
Of course there's more, but, good work.
Can't say that's true, as even before the breakup of Pangea, the West Coast of then America was a coastal Subduction Zone for the Farralon Plate, which Created a Coastal Mountainous range akin to the Andes which was buried into the interior,then eroded away. But which can still be alluded to by Diamond mines in Colorado, the remains of Ancient Volcanic systems eroded beyond the Magma Chambers we still see as the Sierra Nevadas of California.
We need a faint out line of the present day world including the states.
Says who? Just read up on some geography FFS!
@@Deebz270 Like you have every square inch of the planet memorized and you didn't need a map or a globe because you read it in a book... Give me a break. You don't even know the meaning of the term "plate tectonics" Your comment is an admission that you stole the images and you don't know where anything is.
Would be interesting extra material, I agree. Always love to see more of this process. NICK Z with Central Wash.Univ, has several great lectures you may enjoy.
@@valoriel4464 Thanks! I am already a big fan of his. You message made me realize that he keeps it real in the sense he connects past geological events with modern geological features we can see today.
I think that would be a great addition. Just for a reference point.
Thanks, that was excellent.
Interesting piano music accompanying the animation.
This is great! Thank you!
I love the fact the the Chicxulub crater was included
Well done, Christopher, I've been looking for a well-done version along these lines. A close-up of the Pacific Coast, specifically the Juan de Fuca plate, would be even cooler. Upcoming seismic activity will make this video even more informative, unfortunately.
Excellent video, but I must have blinked and missed the Chicxulub impact 😟.
It's there between 70 and 60 Ma, labeled the K/T boundary. The impact point is sort of circled.
I told my teachers this in about nineteen fifty two and they said impossible, I just looked at the map and you could see how things went together
I thought the same thing as a kid in the 1960's. It was obvious to me before I even heard of continental drift or plate tectonics.
@@greetswithfire1868 JUST like a puzzle😛
That would be the "Expanding Earth Theory" that all the continents came together on a planet one-quarter the size.
What a load of nonsense about the continents floating about. Consider the more plausible "Expanding Earth Theory" that all the continents came together on a planet one-quarter it's current size.
Richard Haney that’s awesome
Love the piano work
Wonderful animation on Wegener theory!! And free information!!! Very good to see! Congratulations !!
Always amazing. New for me was the northern latitudes moving west to create Alaska. Also, my home state of Michigan was rifting apart before 80 Mya. Then after it is being shoved back together.
It would help me, if the US states were overlain while the process is happening... Had to guess where i was at, sometimes a lot...BUT i liked it.. Thanks ...
3:17 ish
You can see where the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs impacted in the Yucatan area
Venky Wank ...good question 😃💯
Venky Wank Maybe had a role in the triassic extinction
apparently it came on at 20 kilometres a second
Venky Wank was wondering that as well
Planet 7x
Well the animations are really cool. It even showers elevation over millions of years.
Enc3ladus - QuikScience l
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Can we see more about the connection between North American and Europe through the Turgay Strait
So long ago and scotland can be seen,,,i wonder what ayrshire looked like then where my parents home now stands! One of my guilty pleasures listening to classical music and looking at our very, very beautiful planet wax and wane!
This is excellent. Thank you very much.
Fantastic work. Thank you.
Fantastic!
What music is used? It's haunting.
Thanks
Atlanta was actually Atlantis in Pangea. :-)
Great stuff! Thank you.
Nicely done, thanks.
Hey I'm an indian but I like this vedio really
Music track works well as a sense of a graceful dance of tectonic plates , BUT was it ? Was it ,in some places, more like a slow motion violent crushing impact !
I liked the piano music, but adjusted the speed to save time. Thank you for your efforts in making this.
That's awesome. I have to admit I have a hard time wrapping my mind around deep time. Just something species living relatively unchanged for millions of years coupled with the vast changes that we have had on the planet over the past 250 years that boggles my mind. The species that mankind has driven into extinction versus species that survived for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. A million years or 10,000 generations each living to age 100 is quite the concept to grasp and that's just a sliver in the age of the Earth.
Excellent video. U just got a new subscriber my friend.
How did the impact from the Astroid that ultimately became the moon effect the planet and what part of the planet was impacted by it?. And the roll it played in changing the planet.
ok 1) it wasn't an asteroid and 2) that was Billions of years before this amazing video starts :) Check out the Cosmos series I think its a Nat geo program, similarly check out a series called The Planets, Sorry i can't recall where I streamed it.
Stay Learning!
I FOUND IT! lol
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/series/planets/
Have fun, I freaking LOVE these shows
Thank you!
Great animation!!!
I hope this doesn't sound stupid but is the planet making more crust and becoming bigger over the billions and millions of years? And that is why the continents are spreading farther apart?
They aren't always spreading apart in times outside this animation. An expanding earth can't explain the several times all the continents came together.
These comments are excellent companions to the video
Damn, that music...
Well done and informative.
Amazing
Has some accurate parts in it like South America moving that way, but didn't happen totally like that, but is well to trial through error, then correction. Basically it starts with this Planets' current south pole being the north pole, and spin of this Planet moving to the west, which is when most of the above water land Mass bases were developed. There were three major attached Land Masses that went from the North to the South of this Planet, the Ocean Floor can be red better and carefully to trace previous land movements. Then this Planet did a sudden 180 degree pole shift after slowly building toward it with solar system pressures of another elliptical star system. Then spin to the west stopped & later slowly started spinning to the east. This is when Pangea is most possible to have broken apart, along with Lemuria & the grouped Lands that are the bulk of Asia, Australia & some of Antarctica. The western part of Pangea broke off and drifted into what was left of Lemuria to the west, and slowly combined. South America drifted downward from there, and the larger part of North America was the North American Craton with surrounding lands including Greenland attached. Then later after North America combined with the remaining North Eastern parts of Lemuria, and the North Western parts of Pangea, after an Ocean straight previously in the middle that closed & solidified North America. A giant combination of Asteroids crashed into North America & created Hudson Bay & other low points in the North American lands, that broke apart Northern North America into Islands, separated Greenland from North America, and completely cracked All of North America, mostly running from NorthWest to SouthEast. The lines of Lakes and River Systems running through North America show where the Major Cracks are, including The Columbia River from Portland Oregon to Hudson Bay, The Mississippi River Valley and major attached River ways down into Texas, and the Madrid Fault System to name part of these cracks throughout North America. What mostly was Lemuria previously, broke apart when Pangea did, and drifted across the Pacific Ocean, and left land parts, Islands & land Masses all along the way from east of Australia underwater to New Zealand to the Philippines to Japan to the Alusian Islands. The western parts of Pangea drifted across the Atlantic and settled in places that were previously occupied by Lemuria, but then North America was shattered and cracked apart by the Meteor Impacts that created Hudson Bay, and probably the Great Lakes too. At another time long after Pangea broke apart, possibly by the same Solar System Elliptical Pressure System with drifting Asteroids in tow.
wONDERFUL MUSIC, WHATS ITS NAME?
nice music
Is that the comet hit during the "K/T boundary"???? Time ~ 3:15 in the video 70MYA?
What happened to the land that broke away from the north after 2:09? Did it become part of northern Siberia?
It looks like it rotated around and did indeed become part of Siberia and it also became part of northern Alaska and the land between Siberia and Alaska which became the land bridge between those two regions during the Pleistocene Ice Age.
Why is it that on every video I find no Black hills of South Dakota. They have been found to be much older than the Appalachian range. Believed to have been created between the Wyoming craton and North American plate
Everything lite moves toward the Equater.. Heavy stuff moves toward the poles.. it! the spin of the earth..
I’d heard that the Appalachians are among the oldest mountains on earth, and the Rockies among the youngest.
I wonder if you could find Mesozoic fossils by digging deep enough in Florida
i remember when i lived through those
Wow cool!
This geology of the area baffles me. Everywhere else coastal plains are flooded yet here in the Isthmus of Panama land rises from the sea? The Andes rose?
We need more info.
The plated of Ocean bottom on the W edge are pushed under the continent, being denser. They sink under it and melt, making volcanos that build land, and also the leading edge crumples and makes highlands.
What are the plate tectonics of an all you can eat restaurant, which is best, what is the size of the plate, and how much can you fit on the plate? More importantly, we must ask ourselves how much should one fit on the plate?
So what vexes me is none of these animations really show the formation 55 million years ago of the island arc that was to become oregan and washingtion: Silentia. the Olympics are turned upright and folded. And then 12 million to 17 million years ago the fissures opened up and formed the Columbia river basalt. These animations seem to gloss over this impact....what did this giant plate looking like accreciating?
The Gulf of Mexico may have been Kreated at the same times and events period as the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay.
So Brigham Young was right when he ordered to build Salt Lake City at the western ocean, he was only 160 million years too late.
Can I just get the music alone?
Sea level was 2 kilometers higher worldwide, about 200 mya, traces of this fact are everywhere, Oceans already have lost one third of the maximum volume ever and earth will loose Oceans and Athmosphere sometime.
I could see a river carving grand canyon
NEEDS revision tho no Siletzia acretion at 50 ma
Nope not accurate, Oregon and Washington were done accreting terranes by 48ma and the cascades started forming 40ma
I heard we are heading too South America so Boston will be in the tropics
I like it
Using past movements, can you project future movements? I wonder what it would look like 20 billion years in the future. Weill it again be Pangaea?
there are simulations that go out a few hundred million years. 20bil is way too much, but I recall seeing that all continents come together once again
@@cchanc3 thank you
Ouch, Mexico & cen amer disappear? Well I'm 75 so not too worried, looks like only place left is the top of the Rockies!
Hard to believe all this movement is the same as your fingernails grow.
When scientist present a view of their opinion, how can you sustain verasity when we can only live 80,90,100 years to then die? all this millions years apart can make think and bring personal conclusions, This earth is moving by a Law, not by changes in time.Imagine an evolutive distance, eather you'll be fried if moved closer to the sun or freeze to death if the planet move away from the sun, But the distance is just right to enjoy its climate.
Nick Zentner sent me ☺
Why Mexico is like se this 2:22
Irony of this is soon it will be
"Reject California
Return to Ocean"
The Earth is displayed upside down. The South Pole should be at the top. Regarding the solar system from the southern ecliptic is the correct view.
One day soon, penguins will rule the world. Mark my words!
I, for one, welcome our new penguin overlords...
Florida: I’m not here, _But I’m here..._
Did not notice when/where the continents/Islands of Atlantis and/or Lumeria (Pacific) may have factored into this movement?
This type of projection would probably have them believing it true , the earth is flat , I seen it on some vid on the internet!
To bad we can't afford to shoot them into space for a look , then leave them there ! Arrrrgh!
Yeeeeee Haaaaaaw !
Hope it’s true
As the Holocene ends, what's next for humanity ✨💫🌋🆘👀
I am having a hard time seeing how, and why the Olympic Mountains were formed in Washington State
a lot of the theory behind this is outdated, Especially for the Pacific North West - This goes into it ua-cam.com/video/u2IM-ii4O8o/v-deo.html
Can you make this animation any slower? That way I can take a nap without missing anything.
There’s another version of this video that’s just a bit slower, l don’t have a link but if you look at the ground maybe you can find it!
gimme a break - start in the Neoproterozoic
This video merely showcases the breakup of Pangaea. Check Algol's videos if you want that.
@@SoldiesBC He has also made ones that go back earlier too.
Totally ignored Baja BC migration
The European Continent forgot to take New York with it!!
000 to -99
anyone else notice the bering land bridge is still intact at the end? picky picky me
I know Chris he was one of my instructors at UTA he has been working so hard on these videos for years. Great job
I am going to cry now
@@adam_hase well I always do so.
It's a shame he couldn't say hi here.
I can't even begin to imagine the amount of work required.