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Researchers Complete New Gondwana Map
An anonymous reader writes "A new computer simulated map has revealed the past position of the Australian, Antarctic and Indian tectonic plates, demonstrating how they formed the supercontinent Gondwana 165 million years ago. 'It was a simple technique, matching the geological boundaries on each plate. The geological units formed before the continents broke apart, so we used their position to put this ancient jigsaw puzzle back together again,' said Lloyd White of Royal Holloway University in a press release. 'We found that many existing studies had positioned the plates in the wrong place because the geological units did not align on each plate.'"
When is google maps going to have this? I want to trace where my house was back then.
For God, a thousand years are like a day. But a year has 365 days (ignoring leap days for simplicity), so 5000 years have about 9 million days. With every day counting as 1000 years, we arrive at an age of the world of about 9 billion years. This is clearly longer than 165 million years, so everything is fine.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Neat article! But... um... where's the map?
The God created Earth 5000 years ago. There is no evidence of Gondwana plate or even Earth 165 million years ago.
Tectonic plate theory, geophysics, botany and a host of other branches of science respectfully disagrees with you.
Skip the regergitated article and go strait to the press release to see the map, and a video (and a link to the paper if you have access or are willing to pay $30).
In searching for the actual new map of Gondwana, the researchers in the article have this video of three continents separating.
http://vimeo.com/68311221
The God created Earth 5000 years ago. There is no evidence of Gondwana plate or even Earth 165 million years ago.
Tectonic plate theory, geophysics, botany and a host of other branches of science respectfully disagrees with you.
Even creationists say he's off by a thousand years...
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The next time I take vacation in Gondwanaland.
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Pangaea is the original unified supercontinent. Animation of its breakup is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pangea_animation_03.gif
Gondwana is one of the units formed as a product of the Pangaea breakup.
This study claims heightened accuracy of the Gondwana breakup
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The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.