bigger than us,
older than us.

Wish there were way to watch with almighty eye
the geologic-time-lapse of this blooming, decaying, ever-churning rock-rainbow
superimposed upon the drifting continents.

What a weird & wonderful animal we walk upon :

This animation is from Tasa Graphics "The Theory of Plate Tectonics." This video shows the progression of continental movement from ~235 MYA to the present. Pangea was not the only super-continent in Earth's history, but it is the most recent.

&/+,
for to compare and/or contrast,
our inanimate moon :

Lithosphere ( 2 )