Based on Christopher Scotese University of Texas at Arlington Paleomap Project Paleogeographic Tectonic Globes Through Geologic Time Earth History section of this website are full-color paleogeographic maps showing the ancient mountain ranges and shorelines, active plate boundaries, and the extent of paleoclimatic belts. Source:

This map illustrates the break-up of the supercontinent, Rodinia, which formed 1100 million years ago. The Late Precambrian was an "Ice House" World, much like the present-day. Rodinia

Late Precambrian Supercontinent and Ice House World

Cambrian: the beginning of the Paleozoic Era.

Ancient Oceans Separate the Continents

Continents Begin to Collide as Paleozoic Oceans Close

The Devonian Was the Age of Fish!

During the Early Carboniferous Pangea Begins to Form. Sea Level 100 meters higher than today! (= +100m)

The Late Carboniferous a Time of Great Coal Swamps

At the end of the Permian was Greatest Extinction of All Time

At the end of the Triassic, Pangea began to rift apart.

Early Jurassic, the Dinosaurs spread across Pangea. Sea Level = 0.0 approx. same as today, continents emergent.

Pangea Begins to Rift Apart

New Oceans Begin to Open. Sea Level = +200m; continents flooded by shallow seas.

The End of the Dinosaurs

During the Early Cenozoic India began to Collide with Asia.

The World Assumes a Modern Configuration. Early Miocene: Sea Level +80m (250ft).

The Earth has been in an Ice House Climate for the last 30 million years.

The Present-day world has well defined climatic zones.

This is the way the World may look like 50 million years from now!

The Atlantic Ocean begins to Close

"Pangea Ultima" will form 250 million years in the Future