The results are truly amazing:
...and here it is 560 million years ago, according to the US Geological Survey
So where is Finland? It's part of that lower red 'island', which is also on its side compared to now (turn your head a bit and you can distinguish the familiar shape of Scandinavia).
The continents were far apart, but starting a long process by which they would eventually come together to form what the geologists call Pangea. They would subsequently move apart again to their present positions, but of course they are still moving - apparently North America is moving away from Europe at about the speed a fingernail grows.
According to fossil records, large numbers of animals - small ancestors to modern species - already existed at that time, but only in rudimentary form. There had been ice-ages before, and would be afterwards, but most sources suggest that at the time of the meteor hit conditions were warmer than they are now, and early life was flourishing as a result.
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