What Did Pangaea Look like? 

Me at 3:00 am: Brain - "Wanna find out what Pangaea looked like?" Me - "Why?" Brain - "You gotta"

I remember being so excited when I saw that South America and Africa fit together but then I realized that people already knew that...

I am a geologist. This is a very well done video. It would have made my university days much easier as we had to visualize cerebrally. Some of my classmates printed t-shirts with the phrase "Reunite Gondwana!" over a graphic as just a silly way to get reactions. Keep up the good work!

I just rewatched this and in German, "Urkontinent" more accurately translates to English as "original continent". Other than that, small detail, a very good video. Excellent job, Atlas Pro!

-Talks about one image trading accuracy for aesthetic. -Uses that as the thumbnail. *Sneak 100*

Just imagine being lost in thoughts, letting your eyes wander across your map, when you suddenly notice that two entire continents look as if they fit together..

I've always wondered how mountain ranges exist where there isn't a continental division now, eg. the Scottish Highlands, thanks for explaining it!

this was really interesting. I wonder if you could do something similar with where the continents will be in the future? Like, I've heard Africa will eventually hit Europe, closing the Mediterranean ocean.

Its not what you intended, but this video is actually very helpful for creating fantasy world maps.

Ok. This awoke a geography nerd in me that I didn't even know I had.

Wow, your blog is mesmerizing 🔥 You spell out stuff that was incredibly hard to understand before. Thanks for helping me and other folks explore the world

Awesome video!! So many of these concepts (like plate tectonics, ocean currents, and the rainshadow effect) are concepts I recently learned in my environmental science class, so seeing how these concepts can be applied practically is fascinating.

Possible video ideas: What would a completely terraformed Mars or Venus look like?

The music sounds like I'm on hold.

So, I almost always learn something new here on Atlas Pro, but pretty much EVERYTHING covered in this episode was unknown to me prior to viewing. Good show, young chap. Good show. Bravo, and thank-you!

Pangaea has always fascinated me...and, is so obvious. I clicked right away and subscribed. I love good science channels and look forward to more👍

I sometimes forget how recently we have acquired this type of knowledge. Continental drift wasn`t accepted until 1968. The same year men first orbited the Moon.

I love to look at these maps and imagine how civilizations might have formed had this been the world we lived in. This video gives me some really cool ideas.

Oh my god I can’t express how helpful this video has been!! Not only did it sate my curiosity but it also provided a plethora of information regarding how environments form depending on certain elements like water and wind currents!! This video will undoubtedly help me with my map making skills!

This is an amazing video! There were so many geological phenomenons that I never understood but the way you explained it makes perfect sense! Thank you!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

What about the rivers of Pangaea?

A sign I've been absorbing too much geology lately: 50 million years sounded quick to me.

This is a truly excellent video. Thank you for putting in the work to figure all of this out and make it so interesting.

Wow, this was a very interesting watch and I imagine it took quite a bit of time to put together. So, thank you!

When I was in elementary, I also noticed it, it’s like a jigsaw puzzle, without knowing the Pangea

Just a little correction: “Urkontinent” doesn’t translate well to “super continent”. The prefix Ur- mostly means that something is very old or the start of something, or a stage before something else. Great grandfather in German is “Urgroßvater” as he has been there before the Großvater. In case of Urkontinent, ur- means primordial, the continent that preceded other continents, the one that is the origin of all other continents. I know this comment is now irrelevant cause this video is 2 years old but I figured I could clarify that

I really love this video, and would love to see you cover some other time periods, before and after, and also, future projected continental positions, leading up to the assortment of different possibilities for the next supercontinent - Amasia, Novopangaea, Pangaea Ultima, etc. It's super fascinating stuff to me.

As someone attempting to map out a fantasy Earth-like world, your videos are wonderful and truly inspiring!

0:28 the German prefix "Ur-" means "old", "original", "ancient" or "first". So Urkontinent translates to "Old continent" or "First continent"

The breakup of Pangea: The messied divorce ever. We're still paying.

Your art is so beautiful! I watched this while working out and was so focused on this video it helped the time pass by

I loved this. So much fascinating information regarding our planet packed in one topic.

Urkontinent means something like "the first continent" or "original continent", not supercontinent. Edit: It can also mean something like ancient continent!

Urkontinent means something like "first continent" or "ancient continent", not super continent.

This is one of the most interesting videos I’ve ever watched. Awesome job!

Sir , that was one of the best quick videos on this subject yet ! I learned a lot . Thanks for educating us , bringing out out inner geological nerd for a bit !

If possible, as a sequel, predict what the world will look like in 200 million years

The moon was a lot closer back then as well. Just imagine the super tides!

Best recommended video I've seen in a while. Great job!

I would like to see a non-mercator map, esp. a revolving globe. It's hard to get a feel for what the northern end of the map works out to proportionately.

Can you do more video like this? This periods and supercontinents that existed.

Revisiting this video after 2 years of not watching your channel. Gives me a sense of nostalgia because I've been a subscriber since 'What's the Longest River on Earth' video from 5 years ago.

That was quite fascinating. Nice work!

Really thought there was goin to be a sponsorship at the end of this video when he started talking about working in groups haha

I edited this comment so the replies make no sense :)

Fun fact: While palm trees are considered sub-tropical/tropical plants. They can be planted and grown in temperate regions, even in some temperate desert areas like In and around Nampa and Boise Idaho which is considered a temperate shrub stepp (which gets an average of anywhere from 5-10 inches of precipitation per year) similar to where I live in eastern Washington.

Really excellent! Well reasoned and clearly presented.

Why is this teaching me more than school

I'm so lucky to live next to the Appalachians! Knowing what we know about them, they are such a spiritual place to visit when you realize they're one of the oldest ranges on Earth. It's an incredible twist of fate that so many people of Scottish descent made their way to the Appalachian region and felt like they had come home, because geologically-speaking they had. You pointed out how the Highlands of Scotland and the Appalachians were a part of the same range hundreds of millions of years ago. Perhaps there was a sort of primordial sense of home in those Scots and Irish who settled here.

It would be awesome if there was a collective project where scientists from all the different fields of study could add their expertise to a singular understanding of the history of our planet. It would be a single database to which all scientists add their little pieces, and the pieces begin forming a bigger picture that can inform everyone. It would also make it easier to find discrepancies in current understanding when one theory clashes with another, sparking further study to discover the third option that clears up the discrepancy.

Amazing! A reasonably thought out reconstruction.

its crazy how we’re literally standing on what used to be this

I can just imagine the size of hurricanes that traveled along the equator

This video was incredibly helpful for me when it comes to constructing the earth 1 million years from now, thank you so much!

It isn't well known, but here in Maine we actually have a desert (literally called the Desert of Maine) that is said to have been formed by a large deposit of sand being dumped here by glaciers. Looking at your map it's easy to imagine glaciers cutting through Canada, picking up a bunch of sand and dropping it off as they melted here (which is also how we got our excess of ground water). Now, obviously this was 10K years ago not 200M years, and the Desert of Maine was once covered in top soil until farm mismanagement allowed it to erode away leaving just the sand, but if this map is accurate then what was left in Maine may have been actual desert sand rather than glacier silt. I would imagine it wouldn't be hard to take a core sample in Canada and see if there's any sand or compressed sandstone underground

I can't even imagine how much research and effort went into the creation of this video. Fantastic job 👍

Congrats on 400k subs! Always excited for an upload

Fascinating - thanks so much for doing this :)

Somehow this is one of my favorite RU-vid video's. From time to time I rewatch it.

The research alone is amazing! Nice work!

Hey, what kind of river systems would Pangaea have had? I reckon it would have altered the physical features of the continent quite a bit. It would probably be impossible to determine but this is a pretty good map nonetheless.

Loved rewatching this

Great video. Thank you for your hard work.

"Ur" does not mean "super" in German. Its more like "Grand" like in "Grandpa"

"Yo mama so big she look like pangea" -some kid probably

Excellent Explanations 🔥🔥

Thx for your information!

Pangea: *Exists* British Empire: Its free real estate!!!!!

As someone who lives up in the UK's highlands. It was mindblowing to look outside and think of the history of the mountains I live in. How far they spread.

Fascinating stuff. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing this that was very interesting.

Correction: 0:30 Ur - Kontinent Ur -> Old/Ancient

I love how the amazon and the sahara of south america and africa were inverted! The sahara became a rainforest while the amzon became a desert! But also you forgot to put rivers,lakes and other bodies of water but i guess it would be a longer video to research and edit about! But i think it would also affect the climate!

There might have been springs, rivers, lakes, etc on the interior which might extend the Forrest and Savannah sections further. At least in lines or pockets in the middle of the desert. Similar to the Nile, where plants could grow along the river and it would get continuously more arid as distance from said water sources increased

This great very well explained thank you

Bravo! This is a great video; informative, thought provoking and evidence based. I'm very impressed with your knowledge, the clarity of your explanation and the quality of your work. Thank you for your contribution to RU-vid.

A suggestion for a Patreon reward: A framed version of your final image, as if it were on a globe or atlas(pun intended).

Very nicely done, generalized just enough to provide meaningful information without oversimplifying. It explains in large part, for instance, the location of present-day fossil fuel deposits.

Dope video bro 😎

Urkontinent does not mean "super" continent..."Ur" means roughly Prehistoric! Not "super"...

Atlas this is my definition of what content on RU-vid should be like. Keep up the great work

10:55 That's the most interesting thing.. i can definitely say I've learned something. I had no idea the correlation between cold water currents on west coasts and arid regions, nor warm water currents on eastern coasts creating more humidity. That's awesome and so obvious now when i look at the world map

Thank you. This is something I'm sure many of us have wondered about, and as research enlarges it seems there will be a fairly accurate picture of Pangaea.

6:28 Earth's rotation would have been somewhat faster than it is today. No idea if that's significant; I just though I'd mention it.

love this as a concept and would love to see this for more time periods. maybe even the future! this is 100% series material.

I'd love to see a longer and more detailed version of this, with examples of each thing he discusses. Everytime my interest was peaked he had to move on to the next topic because there was so much to cover. Such a great video though.

Fantastic video - thank you!

I'm glad I found your channel. Amazing interdisciplinar knowledge with a great ability to explain complex systems, keep up brother!

This and TierZoo always deliver on high quality videos.

you have changed my observation about Pangea. I think you are correct!

Very interesting. Thanks for this video.

So for all who dont speak german: „Ur“- doesnt mean „Super“- . Its more like: Urgroßvater means great-grandfather.

0:27 small correction Urkontinent means original / initial continent. Ur- is a german Präfix thats short for ursprünglich which as i already said means original or initial

i remember learning this on grade 3 it was so fun to learn about this it was super easy and this just made me more interested in learning the giant continent!

That's an amazing amount of work and know how in play. I've wondered about this before too but the maps always fell short

It blew my mind after hearing how the Himalaya mountains were actually generated. Woooow. Also was very interesting to hear about the influence of the Panthalassa Ocean in creating climate in the regions. As a non-scientist I always underestimate the factor of wind (think about the Chernobyl disaster and how the wind spread the particles of radioactive elements to the western Europe) and this video explained very clearly the effects of two factors (wind and diversion of water flows). Thanks a lot for your hard work in producing this video!

This is the best explanation I've seen on Pangeae. Scientifically explained with the hot and cold air/deserts and forests plus with the mountain ranges and rain shadows. I think your video is awesome, and the visuals of where our current countries used to be helps.

I love that theres actual smart people trying to make fun youtube videos

Very interesting & informative.

These days are those days when Greenland actually is a *Greenland*