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Imagine the fucking train network we could have had!
USA if suddenly in this scenario seeing so many "brown" countries so close:
everyone if suddenly in this scenario:
Yeah all those poor Floridians
Iceland shouldn't be on this, it didn't exist until ~20 million years ago. Pangaea broke up ~200 million years ago.
Probably lots of others, like most of Japan shouldn't be labelled either.
Spain and Portugal are way off. The Appalachians extend to the British Isles and are much older than the mountains in the Iberian peninsula.
Yeah, this appears to be for entertainment purposes only.
NEERRRRRRRRD
I don't know my time lines, but I thought the Great Lakes where relatively newer.
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Today: Nothing but ocean in front of the US west coast.
Back then: Nothing but ocean in front of the US west coast.
I'm actually pretty sure the west coast wouldn't exist, didn't the Rockies get formed by the pacific plate hitting the North American plate while pangea was unforming?
Is the other half of earth just a big ocean? Or what?
No, thats where the giants live.
Yeah. Just a single vast expanse of ocean that makes the modern-day Pacific look small and cramped. Just think how lonely it would be in a boat on the other side of the earth...
Oh, and the hurricanes will be absolutely gargantuan sometimes, having such a large ocean to strengthen over before finally hitting land.
I mean, the Earth currently is 71% ocean.
Serious question, what would BC through to Colorado look like during Pangea as when work was like this the Rocky Mountains weren't mountains yet.
With my high-school tectonic plate knowledge, they were probably more ocean, or much wider and flatter.
The following site has a similar setup: earth at different times with modern borders marked at their approximate locations. https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#400
Sweet, is there one that does the future?
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Bring back Pangea
No thanks, the americans are way too close.
We're even closer. I'm in your walls.
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Brazil now has at least 16 more countries on their border, and none of them speak Portuguese.
And somehow Chile didn't lose any of its coastline.
Angola and Equatorial Guinea???
I guess that would make Brazil the country with the most land borders shared with other countries.
I've seen a gif of this and it's funny how India just floats its way to China.
lol get rotated commies
Proof it was flat then too!!1
Imagine the railroads
Every time I see Pangea, I have the same thought. Before I say it, I should preface that I know nothing about plate tectonics or geology or planetary physics or any other related science.
Are we sure that's how it was? I mean the whole one continent and the rest of the globe is ocean. Is there a chance that in addition to the super continent, the planet was also way smaller? Like maybe that continent wrapped around the majority of a smaller sphere instead of just one clump on one side of the current size of the sphere.
Yes, they have a very good idea on accuracy. For the record, I was originally a young earth creationist but curiosity got the better of me. Geologists are very obsessive about rocks so it’s just a case of puzzling out what rocks match perfectly despite distance, accounting for things like erosion or volcanoes, and lining up the various ages of rocks for when they were made and when other rocks filled in. Then add fossils to check connections and weather conditions. There is obviously more than this, but it’s something a person can get real deep into.
The planet would not be noticeably different in size. The last time the earth got a noticeable rise in mass we ended up with a moon. There is evidence of objects in the lower mantle that are most likely old sunken tectonic plates, but I don’t recall details.
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So Canada joining the EU does actually make sense
looks so cozy
East Africa splitting from the continent and the resulting strip of lakes is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Hey, my favorite fishing spot survived!
I find it a bit surprising that almost every major country is mapped to Pangea. Notably Iran is split down the Zagros mountain range.
“Just the tip, I promise.” - Greenland to Portugal
Sing it back
Reunite Russia and Alaska
Man those were the days. When I only had to travel a few hours from Florida to get good ethnic food!
And we nearly forgot New Zealand again
Finally a solution to the continent loneliness crisis.
Tibet really went for a rip...
Wow! So THAT'S what it looked like.
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