Dear Christopher, your recreation of the tectonic plates has made me extremely happy, I am a biologist and I teach biogeography in Querétaro Mexico and I am captivated by your research and in this video by the masterful way of doing it with the Danse macabre. I send you hugs and I thank you for sharing your findings in such a beautiful way.

The music is unbearably cheerful I can't imagine the work required to add the current borders and the smooth animation

5:30-5:47 Music fits in perfectly as India moves towards Asia

2:42 the great lowercase letter e

wow india's collision with asia was devastating

This video was very helpful. My students loved seeing the gradual changes in the earth's landmasses and how they came together. It was also great that there was no one providing a narrative because I developed a lesson where my students were the narrators and they had to describe and explain what was happening. Awesome video!!

Madgascar: no man i am tired...i'll rest in Africa

It's funny that you just posted this (sort of) recently. Just today I found some old Discover Magazines in my attic and randomly picked up the November 1982 issue where you were cited heavily in the cover story. You were 29 at the time. The story piqued my interest in how the theory had evolved in the last 34 yrs, so I googled it and found that you're the biggest authority on the subject. This is great. I noticed that at the beginning, the land masses are sort of meandering about until we reach the Silurian Period about 420 million years ago. Is that my imagination? If not, what drove the acceleration of change at that time?

Fabulous!! Beautifully done with the contemporary geopolitical maps underlying the movement: that makes these extremely helpful and accessible to novices as well as those in the field. Brilliant!

This is fantastic! The best plate tectonics animation I’ve ever seen. Settles my doubt about where the Chicxulub Asteroid Impact really was 65 million years ago, as I’ve always wondered its real position with the plates movements. Thank you so much for this!

I've seen this animation floating around the internet and have been searching for the source for a little over a year now. So glad to have finally found the source!

Beautiful! As a geology student this is the best animation I've seen so far!

I would really like to see a Southern perspective.Australia,Antartica,New Zealand.Awesome work,much appreciated

*You EARNED A SUB!* (*Awesome Animation, Especially with the Modern Map Imposed In...*)

I'm just reading an intro to Nova Scotia geology. I find it very interesting how parts of NS, Cape Breton and NFLD were all connected to bits of Ireland and Scotland with eastern Cape Breton, the Avalon Peninsula being attached to Wales. Great animation Chris! There was a link in the NS Geology book (Hickman and Barr 2015).

Absolutely outstanding. I studied geology 40 years ago, and not only such CG techniques dind't exixst, but nobody even knew how the Earth could look like at so early stages... Mogi Vicentini (Italy)

Absolutely superb! Thanks for posting this. I love how the continents rotate as they move. Probably makes it a lot more complicated to figure out paleolatitudes.

ótimo vídeo aula professor! Parabéns pelo seu trabalho! gostaria de ver um vídeo assim com essa qualidade sobre hipóteses para o futuro

found your work referenced on recent PBS Eons video, great work.. thanks

India is like MY PEOPLE NEED ME ANTARCTICA!

Outstanding! Remarcable work. Congratulations.

Nice to see how ireland and britain formed from two separate land masses! I remember reading this in 1980s from publications about scotland and its formatation!

This really paints an accurate picture on how the continents have changed over time

A nearly perfect music choice , light an lively an fun ... Bravo!

Outstanding work Mr. Scotese!!

India: "IM GOING TO GET YOU-" _explodes and turns into a mountain_

Mr. Scotese, thanks for the excellent video. I used it to illustrate to architecture students the colossal forces that shape the Earth's relief.

Your name sounded too familiar, just checked your channel. What a gift, I have lots to see now. Thanks !

3:15 that's a big Saudi Arabia

Fantastic, I will proyect your videos in my Historical Geology classes at Dpto. Geology, University of Buenos Aires. Prof. Graciela Vujovich

THANK YOU!! INCREDIBLE WORK!! VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!! BLESSINGS!!

I have always been fascinated by the geological history of the earth since I was a child and every time I look at a landscape feature I can not help but imagine the forces of nature that have shaped it. When I walk in the mountains of the Italian Apennines during my hikes I can not help but think that the limestone on which I lay my feet once was the backdrop of an ancient sea and when I am in the Alps and observe the contortions of the rocky folds I am amazed to think about what incredible forces might have bent the earth's crust like that. Our planet becomes even more beautiful when one imagines it in motion as if it were a living thing. Many thanks for your awesome work. T.

5:29 to 6:12 The Philippines.🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

4:08 rest in peace pangea

Wow, another video of how the continents had formed over time. The things that ALWAYS get overlooked are how the continents have uplifted, contracted, expanded or have undergone subduction due to extreme plate tectonic pressures.

Amazing work!!

woow! Fascinante conocer la historia de los continentes con un vídeo y tan agradable música.

Awesome, I was waiting for updated plate tectonic evolution video ! By the way, Is this possible You could share your paleoreconstructions data for GPlates, Professor ?

Remarkable work! thank you! I found a small flaw though...you have not take into account the 40-degree, well-defined clockwise rotation of the southern Balkan peninsula (Hellenides and part of the Dinarides) which is more or less started at 25 Ma. Thanks again for sharing these beautifully enlightening visualizations.

This is great! Thank you so much. I'm looking to find it backwards to help me better keep my bearings

Grandioso! Es un verdadero placer asombroso, contemplar esta obra de arte. Felicitaciones totales!!!

It would also be interesting to see a projection of how earth will look like the next couple of million years

Fascinating!

this is great nice work!

My brain ceases comprehension at the projective modeling. Instead of trying to understand, I will just with it!

Awesome! Finally a slow animation which leaves time to study, along with the projection of modern day countries!

I used to dig for quartz in Arkansas, and was told it all formed during mountain building 300,000,000 years ago. Now I see how & why! Thanks!

Awesome!

from 5:30 to 5:38 it was my favourite part of the song.

60 millions years ago?? Dinosaurs ? That space camera sure last a long time without a battery.

Fabulous!!

I LOVE THIS !!

Muito boa esta animação, perfeita. É como se víssemos o nascimento de uma criatura. Lindo! PARABÉNS!

Plate Tectonics before Rodina and Godwana?

Excellent!

this is amazing thanks

Best one yet!

Thank you for your meticulous recreations of our planet's history!

Awesome 👏

Amazing...!

Song: Danse Macabre (No violin) by Kevin Macleod

I love how Japan just appeared out of nowhere and Korea was just like "come here"

I've enjoyed your animations for about 20 years now, Chris. I like the extended lines showing nation and state boundaries. Thanks. I do believe, however, that one of the two stereo channels of the Danse Macabre you used for this video is missing. Many of the solo violin passages are silent. Or maybe it's just my hearing...

My first video on your channel. Congratulation, you have a new fans, and subscriber. Hugs from Uruguay

All dislikes from creationists and flat earth nuts. Yeah those geological scientists just made this up for laughs.... right? Hundreds of years of research? Pfffffft

i would love to see a 3D google earth style model of this

It's beautiful!!

Interesting! Also the music is great!

5:30 *philippines joined the chat* hi guys im new-

Thanks for the absorbing video. I tried to find the Russian Steppes whose volcanoes ended the Permian. There are so many interesting periods. It's a shame that so many people get stuck on dinosaurs.

Africa plate move far away from North America plate this is so amazing and so cool

hello from that place where you read it..and for so many years want to see it..Dr. Scotese I think you have known that place..and you wanted to see it too..so you made it. What you have made in these videos is the artists downward from the heavens view of what is the fluidity of this molten core eggshell crusted planetary phenomenon... a wonder..thank you

Love these animations! Any idea on when the next one will come out?

Indi didn`t STOP at the sign and therfore we have himalayas now

It is interesting to read all the comments here . Amazing animation.

Slide the playback marker and use the preview window to get some interactive animations of the plates moving.

1:20 nice

Outstanding animation indeed. Can you do a tectonic evolution of Colombia (from 540 mya to 250 mya the future)? Thanks.

Hi Chris. I am so glad I (serendipitously) came by your page(s) on You Tube. 1st time I found one of your videos I saw the one like this that was going from 540 ma up to the present & that one too, like this one, utilizes Saint-Saens's "Danse Macabre". Speaking of that song, do you happen to know offhand, if that is one part of a longer symphony or some broader musical endeavor of Camille's? I'm just curious, that's all, so no worries if you don't know yourself. Since I started here, with the forward & backward plate movements/continental drifting (w/the relevant ice ages & orogenies being shown & even the modern day political borders of most of the countries within the continents you show), I've gone on to look around at your various different videos & the many paleogeographic maps that you and, at times (if not always), one of a couple collaborators w/whom you've worked. I recently went to your page & looked through your list of videos, etc. & I did see some animated paleogeographic maps of the world; many of them deal with what is actually only the last 1/8th of the earth's 4.5 billion year history! (wow) Then I noticed some of the animations that go back to around 1.5 billion years & maybe one or 2 that are even further back. But I'm sure there's a good reason for sticking within up to the last 540 ma, some up to 200 ma, etc. Again. Thanks!!! Love your work & I love some of the things that I've discovered since I subscribed to your page. Anyway, glad you are making great stuff. You certainly are a great authority on plate tectonics & paleogeography!

Excellent

Notice how the UK looks like it does today at 4:30 - dissappears and reappears a minute later looking the same 😂😂

When oceans form, for instance the Atlantic from the Jurassic-present, is all of the basaltic crust formed from volcanism in ocean ridges or is it more of an intrusion of basalt?

Great. Very interresting. Thx.

Amazing animation.

At 4:50 is my favourite part of the music

Is that continent drinking soda 2:46

Hermoso. Me encantó

I see why we learnt som much about Cambrian and Silurian now, ancient mountain range indeed Norway.

5:27 When a hacker hacked reality.

6:04 state borders in oligocen? 😮

I love rocks so much. So interesting!

Amazing awesome

How does KZfaq know I have a test about this...

3:05 already found africa and south america together so its like saferica lol

Wonderful

Beautiful animation: the music, the topography, the details! I even liked the map projection used! By the way, which is it?

This animation makes the concept of plate tectonics so easy to follow and understand !

Danse macabre (Song)

Oh wow so the rockies have been around since the triassic that's amazing

It's when India started to break away in mid Jurassic, I got goosebumps. The music fits so well. If you look closely, it shows how India during it's drift left some of it portions in the Indian ocean, eg the Kerguelen plateau separated from East part through 90°E ridge. This is just very informative.