Tectonic Globe

A rotatable Earth that drags today's countries and major cities through the Merdith 2021 plate reconstruction model, plus a simple future extrapolation. Continents keep their color families while the land follows plate motion from 1000 million years ago to 250 million years ahead.
Modern Earth 0 Ma

Today's countries and cities are used as colored crust markers. Country polygons are split by the present-day static polygons from the Merdith 2021 plate model, then each country-on-plate fragment is reconstructed backward with pyGPlates finite rotations. The future side is a constant-motion extrapolation from young plate rotations with a few coarse collision handoffs, so treat it as an interactive sketch rather than a forecast. Red areas mark plate fragments that still overlap after reconstruction.

"They make a desert and call it peace." -- Tacitus (55?-120?)