[Dialogue] {Spam?} {Disarmed} FW: [ColoradoCreatives] [SustainDane] Fwd: [Bioreg] Some very cool paleo maps online (fwd)

[Sunny Walker]

Read brief background, then check out our geological history!

Sunny

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Subject: [ColoradoCreatives] [SustainDane] Fwd: [Bioreg] Some very cool
paleo maps online (fwd)


> Check out what watershed you USED to be in--or ocean, for that matter.
> Ken
>
> Maps that track the ancient landscapes of North America
>
> The images presented here show the paleogeography of North America
> over the
> last 550 million years of geologic history. The 40 images shown
> here are
> selected from a suite of approximately 100 maps that are in time
> slices mostly
> 5-10 million years apart. By using such tightly spaced time slices,
> individual
> paleogeographic and tectonic elements can be followed and
> intuitively related
> from time slice to adjacent time slice. Because of space
> limitations only 40 of
> the 100 images are presented here but but most shifts of tectonic
> elements
> and depositional systems can still be followed. The maps were
> prepared with the
> core of North America (Laurentia) fixed. All other tectonic
> elements are shown
> moving against or splitting away from Laurentia, thus showing clearly
> accretionary and rifting events in North America's geologic
> history. The views
> were prepared by wrapping a rectangular outline map on a sphere and
> viewing the
> globe rotated to 35° N and 100° W. Various stratigraphic, tectonic,
> and
> sedimentologic data were added to the map. Topography was "cloned"
> from
> digital elevation maps of modern Earth from the USGS, NOAA, and
> other sources.
> Colors were adjusted to portray climate and vegetation for the
> given time and
> location. The geologic data were gathered from the references
> listed at the web
> site. View the maps at:
>
> http://jan.ucc. <http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/nam.html>
nau.edu/~rcb7/nam.html
>
> The web site was created by
>
> Ron Blakey
> Department of Geology
> Box 4099
> Northern Arizona University
> Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
> (928) 523-2740
> ronald.blakey@ <mailto:ronald.blakey%40nau.edu> nau.edu
>
>

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