A California paleontologist has created an interactive map that allows people to see how far their hometowns have moved over 750 million years of continental drift.
The online map, designed by Ian Webster, features a range of tools that also make it easy to discover more about the Earth, such as where the first reptiles lived or when the first flower bloomed."It shows that our environment is dynamic and can change," Webster, 30, told CNN."The history of Earth is longer than we can conceive, and the current arrangement of plate tectonics and continents is an accident of time.
The result is that users can see where towns and cities were located hundreds of millions of years ago. For example, you can see where New York City was located on the Pangea supercontinent.NYC on the Pangea supercontinent 240 million years ago."My software 'geocodes' the user's location and then uses models to run their location backwards in time," Webster said.
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