Thanks to Bob Lang for the tipoff to this visualisation in the form of an app.
There's some interesting information here, in the Ancient Earth section of the app - you can see top right that the length of the day has varied for example.
Change to Paleo Earth, Ice Age Earth (where you can see the ice sheets grow and fade away) and Warming Earth.
EarthViewer is another nice educational geology app. You can view the earth during various geological periods.— Richard Smith (@rsmithsoil) August 27, 2020
During the Permian period the UK was near the equator. Hot, arid and with flash floods from the nearby mountains forming alluvial gravel fans which are the Breccias. pic.twitter.com/M3rfh6Xbuz
There's some interesting information here, in the Ancient Earth section of the app - you can see top right that the length of the day has varied for example.
Change to Paleo Earth, Ice Age Earth (where you can see the ice sheets grow and fade away) and Warming Earth.
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