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Students and Faculty Reenact 500 Million Years of Earth History in Stanford Field
Somewhere around 200 students and faculty gathered on a field at Stanford University last Saturday to re-enact half a billion years of plate tectonics. Costumed and organized in color-coded groups to represent the continents and oceans, the groups moved in sync to simulate Earth undergoing continental drift, complete with asteroid impacts, mass extinctions, and Coast Guard emergency flares to simulate volcanoes. More »