Sources
The events in Partitura Mundi are gathered and ordered by our team. The maps, models and images around them come from open scientific sources — each is listed here with its licence and what we changed.
Present-day map and relief
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Natural Earth
· public domain
Coastlines, land and countries at 1:110m.
Changes: Simplified and converted for the web. -
ETOPO5 — NOAA
· public domain
Land and sea-floor relief.
Changes: Reduced to a grey relief image.
Ancient geography
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PALEOMAP PaleoCoastlines — Kocsis & Scotese 2021
· CC BY 4.0
Continental coastlines over the last 540 million years.
Changes: Simplified; between time slices they are moved by the plate model. -
PALEOMAP — Scotese 2016
· CC BY 4.0
Plate-motion model.
Changes: Rotations are computed in the browser. -
Cao et al. 2024
· CC BY 4.0
Plate model for times before 750 million years ago.
Changes: Shown in the PALEOMAP frame through one fitted rotation. -
GPlates / EarthByte
· open source
Tools used to prepare the plate models. -
Spratt & Lisiecki 2016
· CC BY 3.0
Sea level over the last 800,000 years (ice ages).
Changes: Used to compute the coastlines.
Historical borders
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Cliopatria — Seshat Global History Databank
· CC BY 4.0
Borders of states and empires through the centuries.
Changes: Simplified and split by century. -
Wikidata
· CC0
Identifiers of the polities.
Intro and the cosmos
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NASA Blue Marble
· public domain
The image of the Earth.
Changes: Resized. -
Solar System Scope
· CC BY 4.0
The clouds over the Earth.
Changes: Resized and in greyscale. -
The impact with Theia — SWIFT
· LGPL-3.0
The simulation of the impact that made the Moon: the set-up of Kegerreis et al. 2022 (ApJL 937 L40), run by us (about 120,000 particles).
Changes: A baked sample of 16,000 particles; initial conditions from WoMa and SEAGen (GPL-3.0). -
The cosmic animation
An illustrative model of our own; the ages follow present-day cosmology.