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Earth has experienced intervals in the past that were much hotter than today, and those versions of Earth were different in other ways, including the shape and location of continents. From our Q&A: What's the hottest Earth's ever been? (climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been)
NOAA Climate.gov animation, adapted from Crameri, F., G.E. Shephard, and E.O. Straume (2022, Pre-print), The open collection of geoscience graphics, EarthArXi (doi.org/10.31223/X51P78). Geologic maps available via the open-access s-Ink.org repository (http://s-Ink.org).
Earth has experienced intervals in the past that were much hotter than today, and those versions of Earth were different in other ways, including the shape and location of continents. From our Q&A: What's the hottest Earth's ever been? (climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been)
NOAA Climate.gov animation, adapted from Crameri, F., G.E. Shephard, and E.O. Straume (2022, Pre-print), The open collection of geoscience graphics, EarthArXi (doi.org/10.31223/X51P78). Geologic maps available via the open-access s-Ink.org repository (http://s-Ink.org).
