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Visualizing Continental Drift, Typographically

Published on 24 July 2023 by Jonathan Crowe
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.
Randall Munroe, “Geohydrotypography,” xkcd, 17 July 2023.

Well, that’s one way to visualize the rate of continental drift.

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