USA if suddenly in this scenario seeing so many "brown" countries so close:
m4ylame0wecm 2 points 3 days ago
Yeah all those poor Floridians
alpine_jim 40 points 3 days ago
Iceland shouldn't be on this, it didn't exist until ~20 million years ago. Pangaea broke up ~200 million years ago.
Probably lots of others, like most of Japan shouldn't be labelled either.
Return_of_Chippy 17 points 2 days ago
northertech 13 points 3 days ago
Spain and Portugal are way off. The Appalachians extend to the British Isles and are much older than the mountains in the Iberian peninsula.
Bob_Robertson_IX 13 points 3 days ago
Yeah, this appears to be for entertainment purposes only.
onlyhalfminotaur 5 points 2 days ago
NEERRRRRRRRD
BigDiction 1 point 2 days ago
The Great Lakes were filled up by the retreating glaciers of the most recent ice age but most of the deep parts are hundreds of millions years old.
skisnow 1 point a day ago
It's in the same place relative to China and Russia. It's not clear how much of that is because this isn't a Mercator projection, how much of it is tectonic shift, and how much of it is questionable choices on OOP's part. Some lat/long markers would have helped
infinitesunrise 14 points 3 days ago
Today: Nothing but ocean in front of the US west coast.
Back then: Nothing but ocean in front of the US west coast.
DarkSirrush 6 points 3 days ago
I'm actually pretty sure the west coast wouldn't exist, didn't the Rockies get formed by the pacific plate hitting the North American plate while pangea was unforming?
Return_of_Chippy 33 points 3 days ago
No, thats where the giants live.
OwOarchist 16 points 3 days ago
Yeah. Just a single vast expanse of ocean that makes the modern-day Pacific look small and cramped. Just think how lonely it would be in a boat on the other side of the earth...
Oh, and the hurricanes will be absolutely gargantuan sometimes, having such a large ocean to strengthen over before finally hitting land.
RunawayFixer 9 points 2 days ago
The following site has a similar setup: earth at different times with modern borders marked at their approximate locations. https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#400
RunawayFixer 1 point a day ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRVkB2daFjM It's promising to be cozy, we'll all be snuggled up again.
justOnePersistentKbinPlease 9 points 3 days ago
Serious question, what would BC through to Colorado look like during Pangea as when work was like this the Rocky Mountains weren't mountains yet.
DarkSirrush 2 points 3 days ago
With my high-school tectonic plate knowledge, they were probably more ocean, or much wider and flatter.
daggermoon 7 points 3 days ago
Bring back Pangea
nodiratime 14 points 3 days ago
No thanks, the americans are way too close.
daggermoon 7 points 2 days ago
We're even closer. I'm in your walls.
nodiratime 1 point 2 days ago
Talk to me Hudsen π±
ALoafOfBread 6 points 2 days ago
lol get rotated commies
jaaake 6 points 2 days ago
Every time I see Pangea, I have the same thought. Before I say it, I should preface that I know nothing about plate tectonics or geology or planetary physics or any other related science.
Are we sure that's how it was? I mean the whole one continent and the rest of the globe is ocean. Is there a chance that in addition to the super continent, the planet was also way smaller? Like maybe that continent wrapped around the majority of a smaller sphere instead of just one clump on one side of the current size of the sphere.
cloudshouter 8 points 2 days ago
Yes, they have a very good idea on accuracy. For the record, I was originally a young earth creationist but curiosity got the better of me. Geologists are very obsessive about rocks so itβs just a case of puzzling out what rocks match perfectly despite distance, accounting for things like erosion or volcanoes, and lining up the various ages of rocks for when they were made and when other rocks filled in. Then add fossils to check connections and weather conditions. There is obviously more than this, but itβs something a person can get real deep into.
The planet would not be noticeably different in size. The last time the earth got a noticeable rise in mass we ended up with a moon. There is evidence of objects in the lower mantle that are most likely old sunken tectonic plates, but I donβt recall details.
humorlessrepost 1 point 2 days ago
Not sure if troll, too lazy to respond just in case.
If not troll, tldr: no, the energy required would liquify (or worse) the earth.
jaaake 2 points 2 days ago
Not trolling, just ignorant on most related sciences.
Honestly, that much continental drift (Pangea to modern geography) seems so unbelievable to me. For some reason it's easier to wrap my head around the globe expanding from a roughly Pangea sized sphere and the cracks between the continental shelves filling with water as the sphere got bigger.
I feel like to someone who is familiar with this science, this probably sounds like me saying "Yeah, but a flat earth just makes more sense."
Grail 4 points 2 days ago
Yeah it does sound like that lmao
If the world were to get, say, twice as big, that would require a lot of matter, like smacking into an equally sized protoplanet. Your first problem is, such a collision would impart a lot of energy and turn the earth into a smoking mass of lava and volcanoes like it was when it formed. But the second problem is: How would the continents all be the same shape, and only the low-lying water regions have expanded? This would imply all the new matter went down inside the sphere of the current continents.
spicehoarder 3 points 2 days ago
I think part of the issue is that, you are right in a way, but your timescale is just so off. The earth did start off very small, and over the course of the entire life of the universe, it's changed into what you see today. Obviously there's no photos of Pangaea, but we have the plates themselves as evidence.
dejected_warp_core 6 points 2 days ago
Brazil now has at least 16 more countries on their border, and none of them speak Portuguese.
PrimeMinisterKeyes 2 points 2 days ago
I guess that would make Brazil the country with the most land borders shared with other countries.
thedeadwalking4242 5 points 2 days ago
Imagine the railroads
_stranger_ 4 points 3 days ago
Hey, my favorite fishing spot survived!
ChaoticNeutralCzech 4 points 2 days ago
East Africa splitting from the continent and the resulting strip of lakes is a relatively recent phenomenon.
gigastasio 2 points 3 days ago
βJust the tip, I promise.β - Greenland to Portugal
anotherpos 1 point 3 days ago
This is interesting
Heliumfart 1 point 3 days ago
Tibet really went for a rip...
Geodes_n_Gems 1 point 3 days ago
I get it's obvious but it's still cool that the borders are still sorta the same.
QuinnyCoded 1 point 3 days ago
I love how Florida is exactly the same lmao
Tollana1234567 1 point a day ago
South africa is basically spooning brazil.
Lucidlethargy 1 point 2 days ago
Wow! So THAT'S what it looked like.
dylanTheDeveloper 1 point 2 days ago
where Australia go.
Edit nevermind i thought Australia was bigger
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