Hopewell Rocks Earthglobe- Pangaea
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N 45° 49.020 W 064° 34.705
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Earthglobe inside the Hopewell Rocks Interpretive Centre showing the historical land mass of Pangaea
Waymark Code: WMWCBJ
Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Date Posted: 08/12/2017
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This earth globe is part of a display representing the super continent Pangaea.
Over a period of millons of years, the earth's various continents have joined and scattered like floating pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Around 500 million years ago, the continental landmasses were scattered across the earth, located mostly in the Southern Hemisphere.
They continued to move towards each other throughout the Devonian period (410-360 million years ago), the Carboniferous period (360-290 million years ago) and the Permian period (290-250 million years ago).
By the early Triassic period (250-210 million years ago) Europe, North America, and the landmass which would later form South America and Africa joined to form a "super continent" known as Pangaea. These continents eventually began to move apart sometime during the late Triassic or early Jurassic period (201 million - 140 million years ago).
Stationary or rotating globe: Stationary
Historical or current information: Historical
Surface (elevation) relief: no
Size: 1 metre diameter
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