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This Map Lets You See Where Your Home Was on Pangea
So, Florida was inland, close to what looks like a mountain range.
This website allows you to enter your address and lets you see where your home would be located through the centuries, as the tectonic plates shifted.
What do you think?
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I’m disappointed it starts at 20 million years ago.
13,000 years ago, my house was under about 500 feet of water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champlain_Sea
Representative Johnson wants to know if Pangea will cause the planet to capsize.
There is the counterweight continent so I think we will be fine. Unless one of the elephants sneezes.
That was awesome. Alabama were I current live was right on top of a mountain range. Fascinating. It also looks like Georgia where I was a missionary was under water. So cool
Interesting that Florida starts as land, but then spends the rest of millennium underwater except for a brief stint around 40 million, only to re-emerge today.
Maybe everyone’s right… maybe I should relocate, lol.
Goodness! Appalachia is old.
That is so crazy! I looked up your address on WhatsThisWorth.com, and it recommended you sell as soon as possible, because the waters will be lapping at the front door again, within 6 weeks. It said if you can find an offer of one Mason jar of mostly nickels and pennies, a case of Genessee Ale and 14 partly used cans of latex paint in various hues, you should snap it up.
I am feeling so bad for you, and I think I could scrape together the capital to buy you out while prices are still high. Please let me know if there is any way I can help.
[EDIT: I forgot to ask. Do you have a dock and a fishing boat?]
I grew up in Florida and the truth is that Florida is really Atlantis!
Barkha,
So the adage about real estate is correct. Location, location, location.
Just kidding!
Regards,
Jim
It’s a damn swamp! I knew it!
I see a traffic jam of reptiles on 95 South.
Hoya,
That’s par for the course.
Regards,
Jim
Very excited! Sometime soon I may own and be living on prime ocean front property.
Such fun! While not as close to the coast as I am now, it’s still pretty close. Thank you for posting the link.
I can see why Californians are such good surfers.
I’d be more worried that it would wobble. The tread will wear funny.
Interesting. I worked on oil rigs near the northern coast of Alaska. Occasionally, chunks of wood from tropical trees would come up from down hole. This website puts that area near what is now the northeast coast of Africa.
Watch out for Atlantis Man.
This map reminds me that nothing stays the same forever. Enjoy what you have while it lasts, be ready to move on when things change.
Yeah, and it also contains some of the oldest rivers in the world – including one ironically named the “New River.”
From the site, emphasis mine:
Oh Oh Oh, 540 million years ago Pennsylvania was on the West Coast of some southern sub-equatorial ocean. Cool. Figures I showed up late, and missed the property boom.
Edit, uh oh, during rotation it became clear PA is submersed in said ocean.
Very very cool. Thanks for posting.