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| Looking for: Resources for maps throughout earth's history | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 21 2018, 02:31 AM (213 Views) | |
| SpeculativeNebula | Feb 21 2018, 02:31 AM Post #1 |
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Hi! Using the forum search I managed to find http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/rect_globe.html which seems to have been removed from the source website so that was a lucky find. They're good as a reference but a bit low resolution and don't show any other info beyond land, sea and greenness. I'd also been using http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm but I don't like the map projection makes it harder for me to understand how my alternate Earth maps are going to look (well... easier in some ways but not if they're the only resource I have to work with). Both sites above also seem really old so I'm not sure how these maps hold up to modern estimations of how the Earth might have looked. Currently I'm using them both in combination for concluding my own map drawings but I have no idea if that's actually a good direction to take, and I'm open to revising them if I've done something stupidly wrong which is why I'd like to find other map resources. I'd looked at Deep Time maps website but they're behind a paywall and a block to anyone outside the US so that's no use. Does anybody have any other recommendations for maps that cover as far back as the Devonian in reasonable detail? Possibly if the author has explained how they arrived to that estimate of how Earth might have looked? |
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