Ireland 100 million years ago

fragamati

Hi, I'm a member of the Home Education Network. We're entering the Young Scientist (primary school) competition this year and we're desperately looking for a map of Ireland 100 million years ago. As far as we know it was under water somewhere along the tropics but we'd like to display the map for clarity. We would be very grateful for your help.

forzacalcio

http://www.earthgrind.com/earth-100-million-years-in-future/

might help?

fragamati

Thanks, it does help a bit... but I'm not a specialist and I can't pinpoint Ireland's location for sure on the map... I've read that at times, bit and pieces of what we know as Ireland were separated, at times Ireland was under water, plus the continental drift, it makes it very hard to identify its location on the global map... Thanks so much for helping I'm kind of desperate...

Ziphius

Ireland would have been more or less in the same location it is today.

It was not in the tropics but did have a tropical climate. Europe during this would have comprised numerous islands and shallow seas.

The majority of Irish rocks are much older than 100 million years. So, geologists appear to be unsure whether Ireland was actually above or below sea level.

Dr Ian Sanders of Trinity's Geology department wrote a brief over view of Irelands rocks and geological history aimed at primary schools (availible: http://www.geoschol.com/downloads/six_common_rock_small.pdf).

You may find useful.

fragamati

Thank you so much. I've got a lot of reading to do now! and hopefully I'll find my answer somewhere in there.