If the video is 60 seconds long, we might map:
- 26s → Appearance of Water - 54s → Magnetic Field - 264s → Great Oxygenation - 272s → Oceans Turn Red - 338s → Anoxic Catastrophe - 343s → Vredefort Impact - 347s → Oklo Nuclear Reactor - 380s → Boring Billion - 413s → Oceans Turn Purple - 471s → Formation of Inner Core - 580s → Formation of Ozone - 672s → PE Thermal Maximum - 679s → Messinian Salinity Crisis
Each transition opens a new wiki page in sync with the animation. We want to be able to add many other time events, perhaps something like:
- 0s–10s → Precambrian - 10s–20s → Pangaea - 20s–30s → Gondwana - 30s–40s → Atlantic Rifting - 40s–50s → Present Day - 50s–60s → Future Earth
# History of Earth Data Here is the actual data for the History of the Earth animation. There is much more detail featured in the actual video. The project needs to be able to add new data points to the timeline simply by adding wiki pages with the right markup.
11:19 (5.96) Messinian salinity crisis - The closure of the Straits of Gibraltar causes the Mediterranean Sea to completely dry up, leaving a deep inhospitable desert with temperatures of >50°C and pressures twice that of sea level. (5.33) Zanclean flood - With the reopening of the Straits of Gibraltar, the dry Mediterranean Sea catastrophically refills within a few months or years.
# See - Earth Timeline - Hitchhiker Globe and Globe Sprint - Globe Video Guide and GPlates Timeline - Globe.gl and Globe Timeline Triggers - Plate Tectonics