Today's cities and countries appear as colored crust markers on a dynamic globe showing Earth's tectonic history and projected future. Country polygons are divided using present-day static polygons from the Merdith 2021 plate model, with each fragment reconstructed backward through py GPlates finite rotations.

The future projection uses constant-motion extrapolation from young plate rotations, incorporating several coarse collision handoffs. This interactive sketch should be viewed as exploratory rather than predictive.

Red areas indicate plate fragments that still overlap after reconstruction. The visualization reveals fascinating patterns of continental drift, showing how familiar geography transforms across deep time.

This project demonstrates the power of modern plate reconstruction tools. Users can explore how current locations might shift millions of years into the future, gaining new perspective on Earth's dynamic surface processes.