Pangaea
//pænˈd͡ʒiː.ə// name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.
"The supercontinent status of Pangaea and Rodinia is undisputed. In contrast, there is ongoing controversy on whether Pannotia existed at all."
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More examples"About 250 million years ago, all the continents we see today were one big supercontinent called Pangaea."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) + γαῖα (gaîa, “earth, land”), after German Pangäa, which was coined by Alfred Wegener in 1915. Analyzable as pan- + Gaea.
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