Late Cretaceous

From the Late Cretaceous to the Present rifts separated Africa from South America and then India, Australia, and Antarctica. North America rifted away from Europe. Then the rifted masses of old Gondwana, Africa, India, and Australia, moved northward towards Eurasia, closing the Tethys Ocean and forming the great Alpine-Himalayan mountains. As the process continues, a new super continent appears to be in the near geologic future, centered about the North Pole.

The Atlantic lengthens and widens, the Sevier orogeny continues, and the Caribbean arc is formed.

Paleogeographic globes

70 Ma

Tectonics, Sedimentation, Paleogeography of North Atlantic Region

90 Ma

70 Ma

1st Order Global Tectonic Features

100 Ma

080 Ma

070 Ma

Link to other time periods

Cambrian