Geological map

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William Smith made the first ever geological map. He nearly made himself broke too. Find out more about all things geographical - Adventures in Geography - by visiting Rock and Sky

figure from a 1922 book about the geology of the Alps by Swiss structural geology genius and artistic master Albert Heim | 2021-03-19

This is a digitally rendered geologic map (printed in 2D(*)) of South America, derived from a map from the Geological Society of North America / U.S. Geological Survey and the American Geographical Society from 1950 and enhanced with digitally rendered shaded relief. Digital Elevation Data (DEM), obtained from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission is processed and digitally rendered to create a highly detailed elevation profile (printed on a flat surface - note: these prints are NOT raised…

@GiuResta, if Google translate was working correctly...you were hoping to see Portugal? Carta Geologica de Portugal - 1899 #arcgispro #blender #gis #geospatial #copernicus #geological #dataviz #portugal

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Earliest cellular life on earth evolved about 3.5 billion years ago during precambrian time from protobionts/coacervates. Life then amazingly diversified through natural selection till recently. **Geological history of earth is studied by dividing it in eons, then further dividing eons in eras, era in periods, period in epochs. Life appeared in Archaeozoic eon. Multicellular life appeared during Proterozoic eon. Currently it is Phanerozoic eon, that started about 540 million years ago. The…

I use the koppen-geiger climate maps a lot but I haven't found any for Pangaea. Would the climate zones be the same if the continents were in the Pangaea shape or is it something different? It woul...