Nick Turse
March 3, 2022
We live on a planet in motion, a world of collision and
drift. This was once an Earth of super-continents — Gondwana, Rodinia, Pangea.
The eastern seaboard of the United States sidled up against West Africa, while
Antarctica cozied up to the opposite side of the African continent. But nothing
in this world lasts and the tectonic plates covering the planet are always in
motion. Suddenly — over the course of hundreds of millions of years —
supercontinents cease to be super, breaking into smaller land masses that drift
off to the far corners of the world.
