Tuesday 4 June 2013

What Pangea Looks Like Mapped With Modern Political Borders


Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, forming about 300 million years ago. It began to break apart around 200 million years ago. Here's Pangea mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders.

What you see is an anachronistic mashup - a modern map, complete with geological features that did not exist 300-million years ago, with its various parts relocated to the general position they would have occupied before Pangea began rifting apart some 200-million years ago.

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