{"id":1817476,"date":"2023-07-24T17:32:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1817476"},"modified":"2023-07-24T17:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:32:20","slug":"visualizing-continental-drift-typographically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/07\/visualizing-continental-drift-typographically\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing Continental Drift, Typographically"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2803\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/geohydrotypography.png\" alt=\"xkcd comic showing continental drift; in the Atlantic Ocean is the following text: If you covered the surface of the Atlantic Ocean with twelve-point printed text, with the lines wrapping at the coasts, the expansion of the ocean basin due to plate tectonics would increase your word count by about 100 words per second.\" width=\"339\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randall Munroe, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2803\/\">Geohydrotypography<\/a>,\u201d xkcd, 17 July 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2803\/\">that\u2019s one way<\/a> to visualize the rate of continental drift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that\u2019s one way to visualize the rate of continental drift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,230],"tags":[274,772,936,192,273],"class_list":["post-1817476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-geology","category-oceans","tag-comics","tag-continental-drift","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-xkcd","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1790081,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/one-billion-years-of-continental-drift\/","url_meta":{"origin":1817476,"position":0},"title":"One Billion Years of Continental Drift","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 February 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"So this animation went viral last week: https:\/\/twitter.com\/geoAlanC\/status\/1355095014339039233 It shows the movement of Earth\u2019s tectonic plates over the past billion years, and it was posted by one of the co-authors of this study proposing a new, single model of plate tectonic activity that covers the past billion years of Earth\u2019s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geology","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/geology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2631,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/continental-drift-gps-and-europe\/","url_meta":{"origin":1817476,"position":1},"title":"Continental Drift, GPS and Europe","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 August 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"In response to the news that Australia has to correct its\u00a0GPS coordinates to account for\u00a0continental drift, the Ordnance Survey blog\u00a0examines whether Great Britain will have to do the same. \"The situation for us (and most of Europe) is not so bad. 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