Perspective Pangaea

An amazing new map of Pangaea shows how all the land masses on the planet would have looked when as one. By displaying our modern day country borders it is interesting to see Brazil for example completely landlocked. You could travel everywhere by road and rail, not to mention sail the circumference.

The map above is being attributed to Massimo Pietrobon. The idea of land masses being huge tectonic plates moving around the surface of the earth was proposed by Dr Alfred Wegener back in 1912. It wasn't until the 1950's that his theory was more generally accepted within academia. Now there is the fossil evidence and more to support the premise that continental drift began 200 million years ago during the Triassic era. When you think that planet Earth began 4.5 billion years ago, the movement of the landmasses is relatively recent, at least in geological terms. And when you think homo sapiens appeared approximately 200,000 years ago it puts everything into an even greater perspective.We are only a mere dot in the timespan of this beautiful blue planet. Let's hope we have the sense to leave it just as we found it, if not better :)