Your Backyard Through Time: 320 Million Years of Latitudinal Drift Mapped
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A tool called paleolatitude.org, built on the Utrecht Paleogeography Model, lets users input any location to see how its latitude changed over the past 320 million years, aiding paleoclimatology and paleontology by linking rocks to their original plates. It does not show longitude or animate the movement.
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- New online tool can show where your backyard was 320 million years ago Interesting Engineering
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