Thank nature this isn't the current world map.
 

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/a...M_1738987a.jpg

On another note, Britain was central back than aswell apparently :1orglaugh

Sun.co.uk article, so pinch of salt and splash of vinegar may be required. But I've seen various maps like this before which are interesting.

If it were, the world would probably be a better place.

from portugal to groenland ?!?

Columbus would have had a long walk.

It doesn't even make sense - Damn I hate The Sun...

If this is real it's weird that Antarctica used to be sandwiched between Africa, Australia and India

And can they predict future???

Would be fine for me. Wouldn't be so hot where I am.

Weird indeed, but it seems to be quite a common notion that the world did look that way at some point in time. I remember seeing other images like this where everything pretty sandwiched into one giant piece of land with a few lakes seperating some parts.

Just think how many earthquakes have happened for the continents to end up where they are today.

:1orglaugh The article, if you can call about 5 lines of text and a bad quality image that, said Britain would have been 20*c warmer.

I wonder what the actual weather would have been like back then. Was there a jet stream? Was there polar ice? etc.

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i don't get it, what am i missing?

if you ask me russia and china should be beside north america with japan above greenland or so.

That land mass has since separated.


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appreciated


i don't think i ever learnt that the earth was once like that.

back to school for me!

ah plate tectonics are fun...would have made for a ton of interesting land battles

TIL, no one on GFY knows about plate tectonics.

Not sure if i'd prefer that, or what we have now.

Nice to have some sunshine for a change mind you...

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...imation_03.gif

Or a giant crater ;)

interesting the creation of Iceland and what that means

Bigger/better version here:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1epDzLFtaj...0/original.jpg

I remember being taught about this theory in School, but for some reason this image and story is doing the rounds at the moment.

http://www.platetectonics.com/book/images/Pangaea.gif

One current theory is, you may get your wish when North America gets pushed over to Asia :) it is pretty common theory another supercontinent will come about again. Might be in a very different configuration though.

Sorry, I didn't copy/paste the article link :1orglaugh. It's doing the rounds for some reason, I've seen it on a few other news sites aswell. That is Pangaea, the best scientifically understood supercontinent.

Wikipedia has a good article on it.

Plate techtonics + mantle convection = Eventually it will happen again. One theory is North America will eventually become part of Asia, or conjoin to form a new supercontinent. It is also possible, all the land masses will become one again.

no worries, i'm on it now! :1orglaugh i have to say, i'm stunned. i never realized that all the land masses at one point had literally been 1 massive island. i guess it never clicked, i *think* i recall hearing about pangaea but that's about it.

it's even funnier to me because a while back i went on a documentary kick that started off with the ring of fire, i wanted to learn more about it after the japan earthquake + i live on a major fault line in socal,
but that expanded into some cool stuff about how they now think the grand canyon was formed and such. it's pretty amazing how much these geologists and similar can sort out these things now.


thx for the thread :thumbsup

Pangaea is the closest one or most recent one, 200 million+ years ago being close. Archeological Fossil evidence, Geological evidence in rocks, mountain ranges etc. All make it pretty easy to figure out what it looked like back then, and where land masses were.

I think that image is doing the rounds because they overlayed the current countries onto it, don't think I've seen one like that before.

I'm pretty sure we taught this during a geography lesson. I can't remember excactly, but I remember the theory.

Short video on it here:



And no worries :thumbsup

yup interesting stuff...there were multiple super-continents in the past, many current signs showing the plate movement - East African Rift Valley, Island chain in Hawaii...finally those Geology lectures worked their way into my GFY comments...who woulda thought?

...I like to think of it as one big "land orgy"

Good to refresh the memory or learn new things :thumbsup

And why thank nature? You are merely talking about the lack of inner water?
Who knows, maybe in that case we would have smaller population accordingly so it would not be a problem.

yeah, that's trippy with china at the top. i almost called shenanigans earlier! lolz.

I am greatly surprised that you never knew this. If I recall correctly you even attended UC Berkley.

you're greatly surprised? lol. ok, sure why not. yup. cal '96.
not only that, but in fact, the documentary series i referred to earlier was how the earth was made and i am sure it had to be mentioned, if not focused on, but i don't remember it, was thinking of watching it again to see where i missed it.

:)

I doubt there are many people who did not know this.
Its like common knowledge laid out in school at geography classes at grade 7 or something like that :)

7th grade was a long time ago for some of us and it's not out of the question that people can go through the educational system after that and never take another geology course and also never have a memorable convo about pangaea.

grades 5-9 discuss this in detail

Sarah Palin DEFINITELY could see Russia from her house, then!

where are you coming up with this?

That map must be almost 6000 years old.

it's entirely the case that pangaea, shifting plate theory, while introduced in 1915, was not even beginning to be accepted until the 1950s and then not necc part of any curriculum in the late 1960s, early 1970s, when i would have been in those grades.

:)


http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-cont...ift-theory.htm

:1orglaugh Cheeky!

if this map was true.there probably fences at the end of NYC.