Palaeogeography

Palaeogeography or paleogeography is the explore of historical geography, loosely physical landscapes. Palaeogeography can also include the inspect of human or cultural environments. When a focus is specifically on landforms, a term paleogeomorphology is sometimes used instead. Paleomagnetism, paleobiogeography, & tectonic history are among its leading tools.

Palaeogeography yields information that is crucial to scientific understanding in a sort of contexts. For example, palaeogeographical analysis of sedimentary basins plays a key role in the field of petroleum geology, because ancient geomorphological frameworks of the Earth's surface are preserved in the stratigraphic record. Palaeogeographers also study the sedimentary environment associated with fossils for clues to the evolutionary developing of extinct species.

Palaeogeographical evidence contributed to the coding of continental drift theory, and supports to inform current plate tectonic theories, yielding information approximately the species as alive as latitudinal location of supercontinents such(a) as Pangaea as well as ancient oceans such(a) as Panthalassa, thus enabling reconstruction of prehistoric continents and oceans.