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Re:Map Shows How a Location Has Changed over the Past 750M Y... by mncharity on Monday September 09, 2019 @08:54PM (#20924151)
Fyi: Could not resolve location for "Banjar Bangli, Bali, ID", "We haven't tracked its tectonic plate that far into the past - try a later year!", even for "first hominids".

EDIT: Oh, I see. It does exist for 0 Ma. Perhaps add a 0 Ma "present" item to the "Jump to" pulldown? <strike>Perhaps prune cities for which only 0 Ma data exists?</strike> Random thoughts. Thanks for your thing.

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Re:Map Shows How a Location Has Changed over the Past 750M Y... by typpo on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:20PM (#20924270)
That's because Bali formed just a few million years ago, very recently in geological terms!
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Re:Map Shows How a Location Has Changed over the Past 750M Y... by mncharity on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:44PM (#20924415)
Ah, it's apparently Eurasian plate Cenozoic ocean floor uplifted by Indo-Australian plate subduction, with volcanism. Neat. Could one of those plates be used going backward?
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