Mantle
Cut the globe open and look inside.
Paleoclimate
Temperature, rain and wind on a world that keeps changing shape.
Valdes / BRIDGE
A coupled run with an ocean you can descend through.
Old Map
A reconstruction drawn as an aged engraved chart.
Paleobiology
Fossils put back where they were collected from.
Plate Tree
The hierarchy of rotations a reconstruction is built from.
Tropical sutures
Every version of the same curve, drawn at once.
Paleomagnetic Poles
The measurements a reconstruction has to agree with.
Pangea
Move the continents yourself, and see what rotations it took.
Deep Mantle Upwelling
Where large igneous provinces and kimberlites erupted, against the LLSVPs.
Igneous zircons
14,000 dated crystals, back where they crystallised.
Detrital zircons
One pie per sample, each wedge a story about where the sand came from.
Southeast Tasmania
Gondwana to dolerite, at Port Arthur and Eaglehawk Neck.
Marine survey globe
Forty years of ships crossing the ocean, one year at a time.
HistMag
Ships, compasses and the geomagnetic field, 1500 to 1930.
Nothing at that level yet.