East Africa splitting from the continent and the resulting strip of lakes is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Bring it back
Submitted 9 hours ago by Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 hour ago
jaaake@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Every time I see Pangea, I have so same thought. Before I say it, I should preface that I know nothing about plate tectonics or geology or planetary physics or any other related science.
Are we sure that’s how it was? I mean the whole one continent and the rest of the globe is ocean. Is there a chance that in addition to the super continent, the planet was also way smaller? Like maybe that continent wrapped around the majority of a smaller sphere instead of just one clump on one side of the current size of the sphere.
xia@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
What should we call the mysterious continant on the dark side of pangea? It should evoke an aire of mystery.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Not sure if troll, too lazy to respond just in case.
jaaake@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Not trolling, just ignorant on most related sciences.
Honestly, that much continental drift (Pangea to modern geography) seems so unbelievable to me. For some reason it’s easier to wrap my head around the globe expanding from a roughly Pangea sized sphere and the cracks between the continental shelves filling with water as the sphere got bigger.
I feel like to someone who is familiar with this science, this probably sounds like me saying “Yeah, but a flat earth just makes more sense.”
Agent641@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Imagine the fucking train network we could have had!
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
lime@feddit.nu 9 hours ago
m4ylame0wecm@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Yeah all those poor Floridians
alpine_jim@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Iceland shouldn’t be on this, it didn’t exist until ~20 million years ago. Pangaea broke up ~200 million years ago.
Probably lots of others, like most of Japan shouldn’t be labelled either.
northertech@fedia.io 5 hours ago
Spain and Portugal are way off. The Appalachians extend to the British Isles and are much older than the mountains in the Iberian peninsula.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
Yeah, this appears to be for entertainment purposes only.
Carl@anarchist.nexus 3 hours ago
Japan actually made me laugh, simply because the entire country somehow walked all the way around to the other side of the continent.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
The land of the rising sun becomes the land of the setting sun.
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Imagine the railroads
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
where Australia go
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
looks so cozy
daggermoon@piefed.world 5 hours ago
Bring back Pangea
nodiratime@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
No thanks, the americans are way too close.
daggermoon@piefed.world 4 hours ago
We’re even closer. I’m in your walls.
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
lol get rotated commies
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Is the other half of earth just a big ocean? Or what?
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
No, thats where the giants live.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 8 hours ago
Yeah. Just a single vast expanse of ocean that makes the modern-day Pacific look small and cramped. Just think how lonely it would be in a boat on the other side of the earth…
Oh, and the hurricanes will be absolutely gargantuan sometimes, having such a large ocean to strengthen over before finally hitting land.
AmyAye@nord.pub 7 hours ago
I mean, the Earth currently is 71% ocean.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
Today: Nothing but ocean in front of the US west coast.
Back then: Nothing but ocean in front of the US west coast.
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 7 hours ago
I’m actually pretty sure the west coast wouldn’t exist, didn’t the Rockies get formed by the pacific plate hitting the North American plate while pangea was unforming?
someguy3@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’ve seen a gif of this and it’s funny how India just floats its way to China.
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 9 hours ago
Serious question, what would BC through to Colorado look like during Pangea as when work was like this the Rocky Mountains weren't mountains yet.
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 7 hours ago
With my high-school tectonic plate knowledge, they were probably more ocean, or much wider and flatter.
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Proof it was flat then too!!1
sundray@lemmus.org 5 hours ago
Finally a solution to the continent loneliness crisis.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Hey, my favorite fishing spot survived!
anotherpos@feddit.online 5 hours ago
This is interesting
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
“Just the tip, I promise.” - Greenland to Portugal
jdr@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Ok
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I love how Florida is exactly the same lmao
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Ah yeas, I remember how nice France’s east coast was.
Geodes_n_Gems@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
I get it’s obvious but it’s still cool that the borders are still sorta the same.
Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Tibet really went for a rip…
xSikes@feddit.online 21 minutes ago
The toll prices through Spain and France would be nuts.