During Earth’s four billion years of history, things have changed in many places, including today’s continents.
An inte online interactive map shows where your hometown has been roaming the continents for millions of years.
The map, created by California paleontologist Ian Webster in the web application, is based on geological models created by Christopher Stois, CNN reports.
It allows users to “travel back in time” through pre-set enhancements, such as when the first vertebrates first appeared, or the first green algae.
On the ancient earth you can try the map yourself.
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Users can turn the world around by looking at the shapes of all the continents, and getting short guides for what animals were alive on Earth at that time (if any).
For example, for the Middle Triassic, 220 million years ago, he said: “The earth is recovering from the extinction of the Permian-Triassic. Small dinosaurs begin to appear. Therapies and arches come out with the first flying vertebrates. “
London, for example, is sitting on unrecognized continents and vast lands, before splitting into the island we know today.
It is part of a natural cycle, scientists say, where tectonic plates come together into a super-continent that collapses again.
The last time it happened, before it collapsed about 180 million years ago, was an archway called the Pangea.
In an interview this week, Webster told CNN: “It shows that our environment is dynamic and can change.
“The history of the Earth is longer than we imagined, and the current arrangement of plate tectonics and continents is an accident of time. It will be very different in the future, and the earth will cut us all off.
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“My software ‘geocodes’ the user’s location and then uses (Scottish) models to trace their location in a timely manner.
“I’ve created interactive globe visualization and integration of geocoding and GPATs myself so people can plug in their own place.”
In about 250 million years, another superconducting continent will form, scientists believe.
The future continent can take many shapes: Novopenjia, Pengia Ultima, ica rica and Amasia.
In one scenario, America and Antarctica could collide, forming a ‘supercontinent’ with the other continents of our planet.
