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Service Description: Approximate array of migrating locations of selected 13 world cities over 200 million years.

Service ItemId: 50b638b4918645bc83d6246b6c26f5f1

Has Versioned Data: false

Max Record Count: 2000

Supported query Formats: JSON

Supports applyEdits with GlobalIds: False

Supports Shared Templates: True

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Approximate back-in-time locations of 13 modern cities.  You can see how they migrated during the 200 million years relative to the geographic coordinates. Some cities moved a very long way, like Mumbai (Bombay). Others, like Tokyo, moved less but with abrupt changes in direction. Oslo made the most convoluted route, as it kept moving around on a relatively small area, not too far from where it is currently located. The routes of Perth and Melbourne seem to be related to each other (not a big surprise), as do the South American cities Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Caracas.



Copyright Text: Dr. Christopher Scotese, Northwestern University, and Dr. Nicky Wright, Australian National University http://www.earthbyte.org/paleodem-resource-scotese-and-wright-2018/

Spatial Reference: 32662 (32662)

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Units: esriMeters

Child Resources:   Info   SharedTemplates

Supported Operations:   Query   ConvertFormat   Get Estimates