Map of Pangea with modern-day borders

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/incredible-map-of-pangea-with-modern-borders/

by bookofjoe • 6 years ago

32 27 6 years ago

Man, Europe is tiny, took me a good 20 seconds to find it. I know the about the Mercatorial projection thing but this highlights it even more.

libria• 6 years ago

Yeah Mercator tends to hide the fact that Brazil's land mass is 4x Greenland.

phaemon• 6 years ago

But... it's almost exactly where it is on a modern map! It's just above Africa.

saeranv2• 6 years ago

Yeah, and this projection really highlights how huge Africa is.

chimen• 6 years ago

Interesting twist for Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece & all that SSE part of europe

Gys• 6 years ago

It surely shows size does not matter.

homieg33• 6 years ago

Spains position relative to Morocco hasn’t moved too much.

k__• 6 years ago

What's the reason that the Earth had that form? And why not any more?

Did it speed faster around the Sun when it was a liquid lava blob so it got a pointy end that later had too much elevation to be covered in water?

kwk1• 6 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercontinent_cycle

keiferski• 6 years ago

Is this map accurate in terms of the equator and poles? And would that have corresponding effects on the weather? It looks like most of China and Japan, plus Australia, would be freezing while the equator is running almost directly through the center of the US.

ximeng• 6 years ago

[2012] http://capitan-mas-ideas.blogspot.com/2012/08/pangea-politic... with commentary on the shortcomings

saeranv2• 6 years ago

Fascinating to see India split in two here. So I guess the collision of the large Indian mass with the eurasian mass is what created the Himalayas.

theandrewbailey• 6 years ago

Exactly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Himalaya

saghm• 6 years ago

There's even an xkcd on that https://xkcd.com/1449/

fastball2• 6 years ago

I think saying "modern day map, transformed to look like Pangea" might be more accurate, as clearly Pangea did not have gaps between the (modern-day) continents.

michaelcampbell• 6 years ago

"clearly"?

fastball2• 6 years ago

Yes, as in – this is clearly the land features of our present day continents mashed together, not a best guess at what the actual land of Pangea looked like, with borders subsequently projected onto that.

typpo• 6 years ago

I'm interested in how this was generated. There are some parts that are purely artistic (or overlooked), such as the presence of modern-day river systems, Lake Victoria, the Great Lakes, etc.

I built a lower-fidelity but more interactive visualization here: https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240. The viz uses the modeling outputs of the Paleomap Project mentioned in the article. Reversing the model allows users to enter their city/town and see how it moved around over geologic time.

cproctor• 6 years ago

Wow, Tibet.

throwaway_pdp092• 6 years ago

Tangential: I've blocked pretty well all dedicated ad providers. It's very easy and enough people are doing it now that you can see the result - small ads are starting to be hosted on the same domain as the site itself. Small and static. I can tolerate that. I'm ok with it.

This site there's an ad for a book on leadership, a flickering animated "look at me!" advert. Not OK at all. Now I will take the time to look into how to block these site-hosted ads, animated or not. You advertising gits are simply unable to learn, you're too greedy.

pmiller2• 6 years ago

Upvoted for sentiment, but I don't see any ads on the site. I'm using a combination of uBlock origin and Ghostery.

anewvillager• 6 years ago

I don't see any ads as well. Make sure to enable more comprehensive lists on uBlock Origin.

tetris11• 6 years ago

On mobile, no ads either - using only adaway as a hosts level blocker

notechback• 6 years ago

I don't see this ad. But honestly you come across as rather entitled if you think the web should conform exactly to your preferehnces. The web and millions of people working on it are paid through ads. Many of the sites you use would not exist without ads.

Ads that are on the site and relevant to the content should not really offend anyone. Intense tracking is something else and should be downright illegal. But ads are part of what pays many things today - and in reality can also be a useful venue for promoting relevant and good products that otherwise no one would know.

I prefer ads any day over "content marketing", paid articles, paywalls or simply no content being available.

ken• 6 years ago

The internet existed before ads, too. This website we're on now has no ads.

Advertising is not the inevitable endgame of any particular forum. It's only there because we accept it. If I go to my public library and ask if I can put up a flier, they say "Are you a local non-profit? Then you can post it on the bulletin board in the back corner." Just because they can run ads doesn't mean they must.

It'd be great if the people who want an ad-laden web could have their side, and the people who want a free volunteer web could have their side. There was a time when I might have thought that .com/.org could do this, but clearly that distinction is long gone.

throwaway_pdp092• 6 years ago

@anewvillager, @pmiller2 thanks both, I'll look into those. I'm curious how unless they have a very large list (or bloom filter perhaps) of individual URLs. Anyway I'll find out.

@notechback, your point is quite valid but please note I have no problem with "reasonable" ads, I stated as such, only ones that are IMO excessive. And that most definitely includes animated. How the web is funded is a very good question but money-driven fuck-you rent seeking intermediaries who don't know when to stop is not, IMO, the answer. BTW the ad was not associated with the content.

adwi• 6 years ago

I find this oddly touching.

Map of Pangea with modern-day borders

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