Today In Pangaea

[alreadypacked]

We were a bit squashed in, and the Atlantic has grown a lot since then.







The 300 million year old supercontinent visualised with current political borders.


http://eatrio.net/wp-content/uploads...ea_politik.jpg

[OwlHoot]

Doesn't look quite right to me - I thought the Tethys Ocean also came between Italy & France and Spain and France (where the Alps and the Pyrenees are today).

edit: On second thoughts, I imagine the whole thing broke up to start with, and the Tethys ocean started closing only later while the Atlantic was opening.

[VectraMan]

Interesting that Tibet started out on the edge, and on the sea and now is in the middle of the biggest land mass.