This is what the Earth will look like in millions of years due to plate tectonics. Our future in a spectacular film
According to the theory of plate tectonics, the outer shell of the Earth it is divided into several plates that slide slowly on the mantle. This slowly changes the Earth’s surface over time by joining or separating continents. The following video used projections by Chris Scotese, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University, to show what the Earth will look like in 250 million years. Scotese studies how plate tectonics and climate warming they will change the appearance of the Earth in the future and has made several animated maps based on his research. Enjoy:
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This work doesn’t end here. Indeed, it will be needed even more in the years to come and it will need to be done with the help of everyone. and contribute as a protagonist to this project.
Details about our Planet
With a radius of 6,371 kilometers, Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets and the fifth largest overall in the solar system. The Earth is exactly one astronomical unit (150 million kilometers) away from and this unit is defined just like the Earth-Sun distance. It takes about eight minutes for light from the Sun, traveling at about 300,000 km/s, to reach our planet. When the solar system settled into its current configuration, about 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth formed thanks to gravity bringing together gas and dust. Like other terrestrial planets, our planet has a central core, a rocky mantle and a solid crust. As the Earth orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 23.9 hours. It takes 365.25 days to complete one revolution around the . The 4 additional hours are made up every four years by adding a day. That day and year are called leap year. The Earth’s rotation axis is tilted 23.4 degrees relative to the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. This inclination causes the annual cycle of the seasons.
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