Geologic History and Events

Geography during the Mississippian Period

That's what geography looked like during the Mississippian Period.

The Earth was split into two sections named Laurassia and Gondwana. Laurassia is made up of a series of small chunks of land, or cratonic blocks. Specifically, it is made up of made up of present-day North America, western Europe through the Urals, and Balto-Scandinavia. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. Gondwana is the giant landmass located in the Southern Hemisphere made up of present-day South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and the Indian subcontinent.

During the Mississippian Period.....

Mountain building occurred in North America.
Gondwana, covered in ice during that time, collides with, what we call, "ancestral Europe. This results in the Hercynian Orogeny and many other large mountains formed in Europe.
A large part of Laurassia rested near the paleoequator.
Siberia, Kazakhstania, and most of China was separate from each other
The Tethys Sea separates the southern part of the "Old Red Sandstone Continent" (formed during the Devonian Period) from Gondwana