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Voting period ends on 21 Dec 2024 at 16:53:22 (UTC)

Duration: 41 seconds.
Original – Reconstruction of plate tectonics extending one billion years into the past
  00Arrows point to the upthrown side
  0 Continental crust (older crust)
  0 Continental crust (younger crust)
Reason
Reconstruction of plate tectonics extending one billion years into the past. Good addition to the two articles it is in. Easy to digest animation. Published in peer-reviewed article Here. More info about this video Here and Here.
Articles in which this image appears
Geological history of Earth, Plate tectonics
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Geology
Creator
Andrew Merdith, University of Lyon
  • The red lines are "convergent boundaries" where two plates slide towards each other. The arrows are pointed toward the plate that rises in height, as the other plate slides underneath it. The purple lines are "divergent boundaries" where two plates slide apart from each other. The black lines are "transform boundaries" where two plates move laterally with respect to each other (neither towards, nor apart). Together the red, purple and black lines show the tectonic plate boundaries. I can add legends for these in the article image captions (similar to the lead image Here). As far as New Zealand, I don't quite get the gist of your point. New Zealand is at the boundary of the Australian plate and the Pacific plate, see here. This animation doesn't really show a traditional map, say of land versus water. It shows crust and upper mantle, I think. The animation shows regions of "dark tan" and regions of "blue-ish gray". I will look into it and find out what they are exactly, and reply later. Bammesk (talk) 02:57, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]