Have you ever imagined where the city you were born in millions of years ago was?
Have you ever imagined that there is a site on the Internet that tells you the location of your city?
This is no longer a fiction anymore, it is a reality through a new interactive map.
The French magazine Le Point says in its report published on its website on August 31 that Internet users can, thanks to this interactive map, follow the movements of the Earth's surface over thousands of years, going back to different periods between 750 million and 20 million years previous.
How did Rodinia get scattered?
The magazine wondered: Where was New York, Paris or London located 750 million years ago in the period during which scientists estimated that Rodinia - the oldest known large continent - had been dispersed?
"Le Point" quoted on the "CNN" site that the answer to this question is what the California paleontologist Ian Webster wanted to answer by revealing an interactive map showing the evolution of the Earth, especially the movements of tectonic plates over thousands of years.
The interactive "Ancient Earth" map allowed internet users to go back to different periods of time between 750 million and 20 million years ago, either to follow a comprehensive view of the Earth, or to discover where a city was at some point on the surface of the Earth.
At that time, scientists estimated that the continent of Rodinia, the oldest known large continent, had dispersed (Fama Clamosa - Wikipedia)
The online map also allows - says Le Point - to determine where the first dinosaurs lived or where the first flower was supposed to be.
"It shows that our environment is dynamic and can change," says Ian Webster, 30.
Webster - who estimates that the Earth can "save us" - emphasized that Earth's history is longer than we can imagine, and that the current arrangement of tectonic plates and continents is a matter of time, and it will be very different in the future.