Pangea (a supercontinent that formed roughly 300 million years ago) mapped with contemporary geopoli

[Playinghardball]

Full size version of the map here: http://bit.ly/12nCIsy


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[treestar]

1. The Irish would be really pissed off

I mean, really, really mad!!!!!!

Brazil loses all beaches and Chile prospers getting all that lost beach tourism.

[Sherman A1]

2. Yes,

but the commute from NYC to Morocco is dramatically shorter.

[treestar]

3. The economies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania

are going to get a lot bigger.

If I lived in Labrador, I'd watch out. Time to learn Portuguese!

[Sherman A1]

5. Indeed

and it appears that Iran has something of a split personality in this map, but lots of beachfront!

[treestar]

7. Israel is really surrounded more closely by enemies now

But Iran seems much further away.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Wild in a good way

That interior desert...ooohhh boy

[arely staircase]

6. jeez, those Spaniards would get cold

cool post.

[madinmaryland]

8. Question. What is on the other side of the earth? Or is this Thomas Friedman's flat world?

Or was the world just lopsided!

[booley]

9. Ocean

Pangea was when all the continents were joined into one.

There may have been islands but pretty much the majority of the land was all on one side of the earth

[KittyWampus]

17. But that doesn't make sense. The earth rotates on axis which should spread mass out evenly when cool

cooling.

One suggestion I might posit for the similar outlines is that energy/water flowing between continents cause complementary contours.

Just thinking out loud. Please don't get angry with me. Not trying to argue.

[JaneyVee]

10. I've seen this before and it makes a whole lotta sense. Our geopolitics would be a nightmare.

[JI7]

11. is there a map which shows the change in this land with the evolution/extinction of life ?

[Liberal_Dog]

12. And Get This...

Pangea II is supposed to come together in about 250 million years.

[PD Turk]

13. LOL!

We'd be reading about "The Cuban Rock Throwing Crisis" in history books.

[Sheldon Cooper]

14. I don't understand how India and Tibet are down the coast of Africa, and

not up by China and SE Asia.

[Fumesucker]

15. ...

[KittyWampus]

16. A singular land mass > what's on the other side of globe? Fitting pieces together leaves a huge

gap.

I hope that isn't a stupid question.

[etherealtruth]

18. Very cool

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