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Scientists Built a Tool That Lets You Look Millions of Years Into Your Home’s Past

VICE·Luis Prada·30 days ago
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We’ve all wondered what our homes looked like 10 years before we got there, or 50 years, 1000 years, or millions of years. Just a century ago, it could’ve been dirt roads and a general store. Hundreds of millions of years ago, the place you call home could have quite literally been somewhere else entirely on the face of the Earth. But where was it? That’s the aim of a new online tool, Paleolatitude , built by researchers from Utrecht University, detailed in a study published in PLOS One . The online tool lets users track any physical place on earth back through 320 million years of geological history. It works by analyzing magnetic structures locked inside ancient rocks that have minerals inside them aligned with the Earth’s magnetic field, effectively recording their original latitude like a timestamp. Scientists can now decode that signal to figure out where that piece of land once sat on the face of the Earth.…

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