Which places were underwater?
Every place this site has looked at, on one page. Each one is answered the same way: from the rock beneath it and the fossils dug up nearby — never from a guess, and never from a map alone.
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Towns and cities in the United States
- Was Denver underwater?Where two kinds of evidence have to be weighed against each other.
- Was Kansas underwater?One formation that records both land and sea.
- Was Los Angeles underwater?Ground that cannot be placed yet, and rock our sources cannot answer for.
- Was Texas underwater?Fossils the database returns under two headings at once.
- Was New York underwater?The most evenly divided evidence on the site.
- Was Colorado underwater?Dry ground, not far from a page about a sea.
- Was Utah underwater?Evidence that disagrees with itself, reported as it stands.
- Was Nevada underwater?The only age on the site where everything agrees.
- Was Arizona underwater?The page where the answer is mostly no.
- Was California underwater?One town full of fossils, and a capital with almost none.
- Was Las Vegas underwater?The smallest record on the site, and what it can carry.
- Was San Francisco underwater?Two ages our map of the ancient world cannot reach.
Towns and cities in Britain
- Was London underwater?A city sitting on the floor of a sea that is no longer there.
- Was Brighton underwater?More than half the fossils here come from a single age. That is a fact about digging.
- Was Hull underwater?Fossils found, catalogued, and never asked where they lived.
- Was Bath underwater?A full group of fossils that answers nothing, and an empty one that does.
Not on the list? The rest are being connected to their scientific datasets first, because a page that guesses is worse than no page at all.