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Pangea Map with contemporary national borders.

Started by Justin_, May 01, 2017, 03:07:05 PM

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Justin_

This was is a space-filler news item today although it looks as if it has been around since 2012. A map of Pangea but with contemporary national borders (speculatively) added.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j6ZGqXskUm8/UDem8twbzaI/AAAAAAAACfY/fs-E3_PR-N8/s1600/pangea_politik.jpg


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Ravonium

I think I've been lucky enough to see this before. Good map though.

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stargatedalek

Are the water bodies period accurate? I hadn't imagined the great lakes were that old...

Lanthanotus

I do not think so.... most of the states are shown in almost unchanged shapes, but Germany for example was flooded for a big part by the Tethys for an extended time. 

Reptilia

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Looks like they simply took nowadays continents and arranged them to resemble Pangea's shape. Which is an interesting idea anyway.

Halichoeres

Quote from: stargatedalek on May 01, 2017, 07:22:31 PM
Are the water bodies period accurate? I hadn't imagined the great lakes were that old...

Definitely not. There was substantially less dry land overall, so most of the continental margins would have looked different. It's just a cool way to orient the viewer to relative positions, even if much of it was seafloor.
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