A map of Pangea with current country borders

[rumborak]

[Zook]

[rumborak]

The fact that Austria and Switzerland were bordering the ocean blows my mind.

When I was in the Himalayas it was definitely cool to know that I was essentially on a "crumpling" of Earth's crust.

[Phoenix87x]

Indeed that's pretty badass

[ResultsMayVary]

The fact that Austria and Switzerland were bordering the ocean blows my mind.

When I was in the Himalayas it was definitely cool to know that I was essentially on a "crumpling" of Earth's crust.

Austria and Switzerland were once at the bottom of a shallow ocean before being shoved out of the ocean and up onto rising crust. Pretty amazing stuff to think about.

[Zook]

The fact that Austria and Switzerland were bordering the ocean blows my mind.

When I was in the Himalayas it was definitely cool to know that I was essentially on a "crumpling" of Earth's crust.

Austria and Switzerland were once at the bottom of a shallow ocean before being shoved out of the ocean and up onto rising crust. Pretty amazing stuff to think about.

That sounds like something the devil would do.

[ResultsMayVary]

The fact that Austria and Switzerland were bordering the ocean blows my mind.

When I was in the Himalayas it was definitely cool to know that I was essentially on a "crumpling" of Earth's crust.

Austria and Switzerland were once at the bottom of a shallow ocean before being shoved out of the ocean and up onto rising crust. Pretty amazing stuff to think about.

That sounds like something the devil would do.

I'm a big fan, man.

[jasc15]

Nice.  Is the equator located where the image suggests?

Or is this a projection that shows all landmass in one "hemisphere", like the UN logo:


Its also interesting that all the landmass was at one time a single continent.  I figure there must be some reason for this, rather than separate continents "popping up" scattered around the globe.

[rumborak]

Pangea was actually only the last of several supercontinents, there were others before. They would break up, and remerge again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercontinent

[TL]

So Nova Scotia bordered Morocco. That's pretty neat.

[DebraKadabra]

Along with the Houston/Galveston area bordering Cuba.

[TioJorge]

shits cray cray

[GuineaPig]

It's really astonishing to think how late plate tectonics was accepted as a theory, considering how obvious it seems in retrospect (and how fundamental it is to the geological sciences).

[El Barto]

Doesn't seem so obvious to me. That would require some peculiar movements to go from that to what we have now. I'd love to see that animated.

[GuineaPig]

Doesn't seem so obvious to me. That would require some peculiar movements to go from that to what we have now. I'd love to see that animated.

[Elite]

Doesn't seem so obvious to me. That would require some peculiar movements to go from that to what we have now. I'd love to see that animated.

Cool.

[kári]

Doesn't seem so obvious to me. That would require some peculiar movements to go from that to what we have now. I'd love to see that animated.

It's illustrations like this that make it obvious (for me):

[rumborak]

From what I understand the mineral evidence makes it brutally obvious. That is, the rocks of formerly adjacent areas are the same.

What I wonder is how it must have been when they first broke apart. The earthquakes and incoming water must have been quite a sight.

[GuineaPig]

From what I understand the mineral evidence makes it brutally obvious. That is, the rocks of formerly adjacent areas are the same.

What I wonder is how it must have been when they first broke apart. The earthquakes and incoming water must have been quite a sight.

Well, it doesn't just snap apart like some Emmerich movie. 

You can see what the process looks like right now.  There are a bunch of places undergoing rifting as we speak; the East African Rift Valley being the most famous.  Closer to you an example would be the St. Lawrence river valley.