https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/us/map-hometown-earth-continental-drift-scn-trnd/
TL;DR: Here’s the map: https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#120
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TL;DR: Here’s the map: https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#120
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Tech: Interactive map shows where any location on Earth was millions of years ago
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How fun!
Ir would also be cool to have one that takes us into the projected future for millions of years
Ir would also be cool to have one that takes us into the projected future for millions of years
It always amazes me how hard and fast India is slamming into Asia. Look at that subcontinent fly! Zowie!
Whenever I would fly to Africa, I would watch the flight monitor topo and ocean floor map and daydream how short the flight would be if Morocco was still just on the other side of Delaware. Shoot, Senegal would be a day trip for some of that amazing jollof rice (beware the scotch bonnet peppers!) and fish.
Whenever I would fly to Africa, I would watch the flight monitor topo and ocean floor map and daydream how short the flight would be if Morocco was still just on the other side of Delaware. Shoot, Senegal would be a day trip for some of that amazing jollof rice (beware the scotch bonnet peppers!) and fish.
It sure would!
Though I don't think we understand the process well enough to project with any confidence past the things that are already in progress. So we know there will be a new ocean once the rift in Africa fully unzips, the Atlantic will continue to expand for a while, and the Pacific will shrink to nothing. And there are a few other moving bits & pieces that will probably continue doing what they're doing for a while. But how all the other parts will reconfigure themselves 25 or 50 or 100 million years from now is pure speculation. And further down the timeline? Is anybody's guess, because nobody really knows a thing. Except that eventually plate tectonics will grind to a halt, the water cycle will stop cycling, and the planet will dry up and become uninhabitable. (I've seen this suggested for sometime around 600 million to 1 billion years from now -- long before the sun expands and turns the earth into a crispy cinder.)