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The globe above shows a reconstruction of the ancient Earth at various stages of its history. The reconstruction starts at 120 million years ago and shows a sequence of globes at intervals of 10 million years. The number in the top right hand corner is the age in million years, so 50 MA is 50 Million years Ago and so on.

Note in particular that the Earth can be reconstructed so a complete and continuous sphere of the Earth can be formed at all times in the past.

As the sequence runs new Ocean Floor can be seen forming so the continents move apart. Since this is happening world-wide the Earth must increase in diameter. Click on the other latitudes to see other views of the Earth.