Continental Drift Key

This website contains diagrams showing the positions of the continents from 700 million years (my) ago to the present and projections about how the continents may drift up to 200 my in the future.

In these diagrams, the white areas represents the continents, the dark areas are the ocean and the grey is the continental shelf.

 

The labels identifying the continents are:

 

Afg: Afghanistan

Afr: Africa

Ara: Arabia

Aus: Australia

Bal: the Baltics

Ean: East Antarctica

Grn: Greenland

Ind: India

Kam: Kamchatka

Nam: North America

NCh: North China

Pap: Papua New Guinea

Sam: South America

Sib: Siberia

SCh: South China