Aims of the book
Provide a global synthesis of the evolution of Life and Earth from the Ediacaran and throughout the Palaeozoic (635-251 Ma). This project will transparently describe the process of building biogeographic and palaeo-geographic knowledge about deep-time Earth whilst synthesizing the state of the art in both.
The book will be structured around the included geological periods (being the Ediacaran, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian), in which each will get a minimum of two chapters.
1982-2010
Robin and Richard Fortey worked together at the Natural History Museum in London and published around 20 papers together over nearly three decades.
2002-2023
When Robin retired from the Natural History Museum at age 60 he joined up with Trond Torsvik. For more than two decades Robin was a frequent visitor to Norway and they published more than 20 papers together --- and one book. Most of the palaeogeographic maps developed and revised by Robin and Trond are found in this book
POLYGONS and ROTATION FILE
Continental Units and Rotation file used to generate the reconstructions in 'Earth History and PALAEOGEOGRAPHY' are in GPlates format.
An updated version of the 2017 book files can be downloaded below and more info about the files and how to run GPlates can be found below.
