Do you want to know how our planet's face has looked millions of years ago?

Here are Scotese's
Palaeogeographic and Palaeotectonic
Reconstructions of the World


You can purchase these and other animations on CD as well as on video tape through www.scotese.com.
Students, ask your teachers to add this material to your university or school library! Teachers and Professors, go get this material for your students- It is worthwhile!

Go to Slide Show (part I 425 kb)

Go to Slide Show (part II 700 kb)

Or choose individual maps here
(they will open in an additional window):






New: Courtesy of Chris Scotese we can present two new
world views from the Cretaceous-Teriary Boundary,
including the Chicxulub impact crater





Legal notice: This educational service is composed of parts of the Paleomap Project CDs available at www.scotese.com. Used and redesigned with permission of the author of the paleomaps (Chris Scotese).

You can purchase these and other animations on CD as well as on video tape through www.scotese.com. Students, ask your teachers to add this material to your university or school library. It is worthwhile!

Looking for animation of paleotectonics?


An educational online resource for R. Leinfelder's University Lecture "Historical Geology - System Earth"
This is a joint online ressource for our web services www.palaeo.tv, www.palaeo.de/edu and www.geobio-center.de

last changes 13/4/03 by R. Leinfelder