Circles of Displacement by Darrell Bain has something like "time shrapnel" hit some place (in Texas, IIRC), and parts of a town and surrounding environ swap places with the age of the dinosaurs. The effect isn't contiguous; circles ranging from meters to kilometers across trade places, so you might step from the TV section in K-Mart into a prehistoric swamp, then back to the store a few meters later.
City at World's End by Edmond Hamilton has a city hit by a new type of atomic bomb. Instead of being destroyed, it ends up blasted a billion years into the future, finding itself on a desolate, deserted world.
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