Reconstructions
Below are some examples of plate reconstructions using the PLATES Project's global plate reconstruction model. Some of our atlases are available as UTIG technical reports.

Pangea - 200 Ma

Molleweide projection

• 750 Ma ----- Late Neo-Proterozoic
• 460 Ma ----- Late Ordovician
• 450 Ma ----- Late Ordovician
• 400 Ma ----- Early Devonian
• 350 Ma ----- Mississippian
• 300 Ma ----- Pennsylvanian
• 250 Ma ----- Late Permian
• 200 Ma ----- Early Jurassic
• 140 Ma ----- Early Cretaceous
• 110 Ma ---- Early Cretaceous reconstruction of the South Atlantic free-air gravity data
• 100 Ma ----- Early Cretaceous
• 65 Ma ----- Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary
• 40 Ma ----- Bartonian, Early Eocene
• 30 Ma ----- Oligocene
• Present Day
• 100 m.y. into the Future

Orthographic projection

• 550 Ma ----- Earliest Cambrian
• 400 Ma ----- Early Devonian
• 300 Ma ----- Late Pennsylvanian
• 278 Ma ----- Early Permian
• 250 Ma ----- Early Triassic (PDF)
• 250 Ma ----- Early Triassic (PDF)
• 200 Ma ----- Late Triassic
• 150 Ma ----- Late Jurassic
• 100 Ma ----- Early Cretaceous
• 060 Ma ----- Middle Paleocene
• 040 Ma ----- Middle Eocene

The Making of Texas (poster)

Animations

• The Other Side of the World (Powerpoint Animation, 180 to 0 Ma, Pacific view)
• PLATES 2011 Atlas of Plate Reconstructions (750 Ma to Present Day) (Powerpoint Animation, 2011 model. The 2014 atlas is available as a PDF)
• Texas Through Time (Powerpoint Animation, 2002-03-12; supersedes From Texas to Antarctica)
• Opening of the Indian Ocean (Powerpoint Animation, 2000-08-10)
• Interaction Between the North System and the Ontong Java Plateau (20-0 Ma)
• Tectonic Evolution of the Arctic Region Since the Ordovician (Powerpoint Animation, 2000-07-09)
• Mid-Jurassic to Recent Tectonic Evolution of the Arctic Region (Powerpoint Animation, 1999-12-09)
• Antarctica: Keystone of Gondwana (Powerpoint Animation, 1999-06-25)