An outing to the past: this map shows what the place where you live was like 750 million years ago. This application permits you to know the exact place where your home was a million years ago and what creatures lived here.
Billions of years back the Earth was an uninhabited spot free
of civilizations. Definitely, your parents or your grandparents have mentioned you
what the landscape was like 50 or 70 years back and even, we ourselves, are observers
to the constant change of the earthbound landscape.
South America was apparently connected to Africa 750 million years back
.
Yet, would you be able to imagine what was before that park, that high rise building, or that general store?
Human memory doesn't figure out how to enlist the
incredible territorial movements of the Earth before the peak of human
advancement showed up.
This is the reason the Ancient Earth Globe application shows
an interactive map of our planet so you can pinpoint exactly where your location
was before everything became what we currently know.
The maker of this application is Ian Webster, curator of
the most comprehensive computerized library of dinosaurs and he depended on
the PALEOMAP project to make a map that tracks the evolution of the Earth and
the ocean over the past 1.1 billion years.
The outcome was amazing. Any user can enter a particular
location or something more general, for example, a state or a city, and afterward
define the time to which they need to take a look.
How to use it?
In the options of the periods that can be picked, a list
is shown that goes from 20 to 750 million years ago and, after that, you just
need to type the address.
As if that were not sufficient, once you have picked the
period and the territory, the map provides clarification about the structure
of the Earth in that period and the potential dinosaurs or animals that lived around
there.
For example, the Cuauhtemoc mayor's office (in Mexico
City) 400 million years back was in the sea. What's more, the first vertebrates
started to walk on Earth, while the sea already had coral reefs and a great
variety of fish, sharks, and cephalopods. Amazing, isn't that so?
