| Tango01 | 13 Nov 2019 1:10 p.m. PST |
…Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years "Some 240 million years ago, the patch of land that would one day become the National Mall was part of an enormous supercontinent known as Pangea. Encompassing nearly all of Earth's extant land mass, Pangea bore little resemblance to our contemporary planet. Thanks to a recently released interactive map, however, interested parties can now superimpose the political boundaries of today onto the geographic formations of yesteryear—at least dating back to 750 million years ago…."
See here link Amicalement
Armand |
| Wackmole9 | 13 Nov 2019 1:43 p.m. PST |
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 StoneMtnMinis  | 13 Nov 2019 2:42 p.m. PST |
Tango, thinks for posting this! Although there are some who will likely complain.  |
| Extrabio1947 | 13 Nov 2019 4:05 p.m. PST |
Great post, Tango. This is a very interesting site. |
| robert piepenbrink | 13 Nov 2019 4:06 p.m. PST |
And I can verify the results--how, exactly? Cynical of me, I know. I get this way about extra-Solar planets, too. |
| The big e | 13 Nov 2019 4:30 p.m. PST |
Very cool. Geology Landmass class had all this data and similar maps in college 30 years ago. Easy to verify when you take the courses. This beautiful computer image really makes it easy to see everything. Nice find Tango. |
 Jlundberg | 13 Nov 2019 6:19 p.m. PST |
Will use this to teach with |
| robert piepenbrink | 13 Nov 2019 7:39 p.m. PST |
egoodlander, we have a theory consistent with our data--which is good, certainly, and for all I know, correct. But absent a time machine, it's not possible to verify. It's a problem all too familiar to historians. The history of the advancement of human knowledge is the story of one theory consistent with the data after another being displaced by more data or a different theory. So if someone tells me that X happened--oh, even a million years ago--or that something exists so far away we can't hope to observe it in my lifetime, I listen politely (mostly) but I don't take it as seriously as I do a weather forecast. The forecaster has a result I can test. |
| langobard | 14 Nov 2019 2:16 a.m. PST |
I understand (and more or less agree with) Robert's concerns, but yep, this is fun! Thanks Armand! |
| ZULUPAUL | 14 Nov 2019 2:17 a.m. PST |
Thanks Tango, found out my town was underwater for millions of years. Even SWMBO loved it. |
| skipper John | 14 Nov 2019 7:07 a.m. PST |
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| Andy Skinner | 14 Nov 2019 7:36 a.m. PST |
So it it finding out where the lat/long of your spot in the globe was, and showing that staying the same with land moving over it? Or is it tracing where your part of the earth moved from? andy |
| Tango01 | 14 Nov 2019 12:33 p.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it my friends!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
finds a 3D model on the internet, and tries to turn it into a wargaming model.
