EarthByte Multimedia is arranged into 3 categories, 'Plate Tectonics & Geodynamics', 'Basin Evolution & Surface Processes' and 'Presentations & More'. Click on the links below for a specific category, otherwise feel free to look through all the multimedia articles displayed on this page, or visit the EarthByte YouTube channel.
This animations is made using free plate tectonic reconstruction software, GPlates (www.gplates.org), and depicts the breakup of Gondwanaland and the plate tectonic evolution of the Tethyan ocean basins, and the subsequent formation of the Indian Ocean.
By popular demand, Sabin Zahirovic provides a few more GPlates animations of the breakup of Pangea and Gondwana since 200 million years ago. This animation is in a hemispherical view and is based on the model of Seton et al. (2012). All the files needed to make this animation are in the GPlates SampleData folder, … Read more…
By popular demand, Sabin Zahirovic provides a few more GPlates animations of the breakup of Pangea and Gondwana since 200 million years ago. This animation is in a hemispherical view and is based on the model of Seton et al. (2012). All the files needed to make this animation are in the GPlates SampleData folder, … Read more…
FameLab is an international communication competition to find the best new voices of science, engineering and mathematics across the world. This video shows EarthByte’s own Andrew Merdith presenting his work on Australian Opals at the NSW state finals of Famelab.
Deep Time Travel — it’s not just science fiction! The EarthByte Group is developing an Experimental Virtual Planet to explore Earth’s geological evolution, enabling deep time travel from your own laptop, anywhere, anytime, and all without a police box. In this illustrated talk, Australian Laureate Fellow Professor Dietmar Müller reports on the experimental work of … Read more…
An animation of a numerical model.Citation Rey, P. F., N. Coltice, and N. Flament (2014), Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics, Nature, 513(7518), 405-408.View other EarthByte animations on our YouTube channel
The EarthByte group is a finalist for the Eureka Prize from the Australian Museum, for its development of GPlates software! The prize is awarded annually for research innovation and GPlates was nominated for providing a “experimental virtual planet” to investigate geological systems through deep time. You can read more about the Eureka Prize here. Watch the … Read more…
This animation is from our recent work on Southeast Asian plate reconstructions.Read the peer-reviewed paperCitationZahirovic, S., M. Seton, and R. Müller (2014), The Cretaceous and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia, Solid Earth (EGU), 5, 227-273. doi: 10.5194/se-5-227-2014.View similar animations on our EarthByte YouTube channel
This model shows the evolution of a continental rift from inception to breakup, using the Underworld numerical modelling framework. The left and right walls of the model are pulled apart from each other at a total rate of 2 cm/yr to induce rifting.Courtesy of Luke Mondy, EarthByte.View other EarthByte animations on our YouTube channel
Citation Rey, P., and R. Müller (2010), Fragmentation of active continental plate margins owing to the buoyancy of the mantle wedge, Nature Geoscience, 3(4), 257-261.View similar animations on our EarthByte YouTube channel