Where you stand, through deep time

Deep-Time
Location Explorer.

Pick a spot on Earth and a point in geologic time. This calls a live scientific reconstruction service (GPlates, University of Sydney) to show roughly where that location actually sat, according to real plate-tectonic modeling — not an illustration, an honest calculation.

Choose a time

The outline shown is a modern reference map — only the marker's position reflects the actual ancient reconstruction. Continents themselves did not have this shape or arrangement in deep time.

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