Kind of tempted to plug in "Chicxulub" or "Sudbury" or "Manicouagan" just to see if at some point the little flashing dot leaps away from Earth altogether.
If anyone hasn't looked at Manicouagan Lake on Google Earth yet, do so. It's amazingly obviously an impact crater...
My address in California they don't have a plate in their data for before 200mya.
I always learned in school about how Africa was once flush against South America, but I don't think I ever internalized the corollary that Mauritania was right by Virginia. (Add "what's now" to that sentence as appropriate.)
The slaves were just going home, really. 2 is truth.
I tried this. I put in my address, followed it back to Pangea and then returned to the present day to find that Sheffield had somehow moved to Cardiff or thereabouts. I am now worried about branching timelines and stuff like that.
This is pretty cool. I knew Alaska was cobbled together from a bunch of separate plate fragments ("terranes"), but this really shows what that looks like in practice. They've only traced mine back to the Triassic, at which point it was apparently an island or archipelago way out in the middle of the ocean.
I may be dense but I don't understand why the location of my pink dot starts to get dissociated from the lines of the map. What does it mean that 340 million years ago Pennsylvania and surrounding states are underwater but my town in Pennsylvania has moved to Quebec?
All the road signs are in French now?
I love maps, so this was a fun bit of dangerous clicking.
7. It was a smidge odd that once I'd moved back into past, moving forward to the present made it impossible to adjust the globe so that north and south and my location dot were back where they started. I suspect the presence of Bugosaurus aitchtiyemelus in the ecosystem. Nice page regardless of that. I like the zillions of dinosaur pix.
I am charmed by the existence of a dinosaur called bambiraptor. Note to CC: it lived in Montana.
I used this to go back in the past for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, US. I came back to the present and DONALD TRUMP IS THE US PRESIDENT!
Like so many things, doesn't work in Hawaii. But in fairness, Oahu didn't exist 20 million years ago.
The mapping tool is rad. And I learned about the Pawpawsaurus, which is apparently not named after the pawpaw fruit as I suspected, but rather named after...I guess in Texas pawpaw means a type of shale maybe? Anyway, pawpawsaurus: total badass dinosaur.
I mean, aside from people better read than myself.
