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Earth 100 Million Years From Now
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Earth 100 Million Years From Now

2011 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Continents are not fixed. This film traces how Earth's crustal plates have drifted, collided, and split apart over hundreds of millions of years, from the assembly of Pangaea to its breakup into the landmasses recognized today, and then projects that same slow motion forward. Using animated maps and geological evidence of past plate movement, it shows the mechanics behind continental drift: subduction zones swallowing ocean floor, rift valleys widening into new seas, and mountain ranges thrown up where plates grind together. The film applies current measured plate velocities to model where the continents are likely headed, sketching a future Africa fused to Europe, an Atlantic Ocean wider than it is now, and Australia drifting into Asia. Geologists' data on plate speed and direction underpin the projections rather than pure speculation. The result is less a prediction than a demonstration of a process already underway, one that will keep reshaping the map long after any current coastline is gone.