Pangea Flat world Continental Drift, Pangea to Present: Physical Puzzle These are jpeg images from the movie Pangea.mov They
can be used to make a physical puzzle. They include images of
all the continents in Note that there are two versions, each, of (1) and (2). The versions marked “sm” are shrunken to fit on a standard page - unfortunately quite small. Alternatively, the individual continents (3ABC) are page size sheets and not shrunken, so you can print them on a regular color printer and make the full sized puzzle using them. Note that there are shape/space problems when Eurasia collides with India, Arabia, and Iberia forming the Himalayan and other mountain ranges. This can be solved by stacking the two versions of Eurasia in (1)* so that India, Arabia, and Iberia can be inserted between the two layers. When I made this puzzle, I wrapped some thick, fuzzy blue cloth around a board to use as the background. (The fuzziness makes the pieces stay put better.)
* or print out two copies of 3B, cut away the indents from one, and stack them. Breakup of Pangea and continental drift, 200 million years ago to present. Drawn by Tanya Atwater and animated by Ian MacMillan using Flash, with additions by Grace Giles. This is a special “flat earth” version of
the drift of the continents, starting from the breakup of Super-continent
Pangea about 200 million years ago. The continents were hand
flattened by Atwater such that they are recognizable and they fit together
in their Pangean and present-day configurations.
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