Friday, December 16, 2011

What latitude was thule greenland located during the precambrian era?

Greenland was in the South Hemisphere


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|||The Precambrian era was a long, long time period. Everything before about 550 million years ago is Precambrian, which means the Precambrian was around 4 billion years long.





Considering the shifts in plate tectonics that have occurred in the past 550 million years, moving continents from Pangaea through all manner of different configurations and back, it is not unreasonable to think that the section of land which is currently Greenland could have been almost anywhere and everywhere during the Precambrian.





Parts of southern Greenland show signs of having been part of one of the continental cratons. Cratons were igneous extrustions spewed up by the highly active Archaean volcanoes, and became the 'seeds' that formed the accretion centers of the forming continents.





Near the end of the Precambrian, the mass that is now Greenland was fairly close to the South Pole of the planet. Over the course of the last 500 million years, it has wandered north, and wound up in more or less it's current position somewhere around the end of the Triassic (about 220 - 200 million years ago).|||The town of Thule certainly wasn't anyplace, yet, in the PreCambrian.

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