Where was your backyard millions of years ago?
The upgraded model adds deformed regions and lost continents, giving researchers a refined global map of ancient rock positions.
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A rock found today on a mountain could have formed near the equator. A fossil found in Europe could belong to a tropical ecosystem. Even the place where a city is today could have been much further south or north millions of years ago. Earth has changed throughout its history. Continents move, collide, separate and form new mountains. That's why understanding where a place was in the past is key to rebuilding ancient climates, tracking fossils, …
A team of geoscientists from the University of Utrecht has just made public Paleolatitude.org , an interactive atlas with free access and able to go back up to 320 million years, until the time of Pangea, to know where in the past any current city was, and to solve also the enigma of the fate of missed continents such as Grand Adria or Argolandia.The soil that we stepped on was not always there.On the contrary, it has traveled drifting through t…
Where was your backyard millions of years ago?
An international team of Earth scientists led by Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has developed an online tool that allows you to see, for any given location on Earth, what latitude it occupied in the distant past, right back to the heyday of the supercontinent Pangea 320 million years ago. The work has been published in PLOS One.
Utrect University: Where was your back yard millions of years ago?
Utrect University: Where was your back yard millions of years ago?. “An international team of earth scientists led by Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has developed an online tool that allows you to see, for any given location on Earth, what latitude it occupied in the distant past, right back to the heyday of the supercontinent Pangaea 320 million years ago.”
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