How Can We Visualize the Earth's Plate Tectonics Over Time?

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Here is a website that shows the arrangement of the continents and seas at a range of past times (105-750 MYA).
It was made by Ian Webster, a software engineer.
This a lot like a similar but less good iPad app I used to have that was (like Ancient Earth) based on the work of Christopher Scotese.
I consider it a nice tool for seeing what ancient environments were like. I was also able to get a movie from Scotese to use in a presentation of where the research animal, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) came from.
Here is an article on the How Stuff Works website that has an interview of Scotese.
 
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