It's Alfred Wegener's name for the single supercontinent that broke up into Laurasia & Gondwanaland
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Facts About Pangaea, Ancient Supercontinent - Live Science  Dec 17, 2014 ... The breakup of the Pangaea supercontinent. ... massive supercontinent called Pangaea, which was surrounded by a single ... that the Earth's outer shell is broken up into several plates that slide over ... More than a century ago, the scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the notion of an ancient supercontinent,...
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Pangea | supercontinent | Britannica.com  Jun 10, 2016 ... The supercontinent began to break apart about 200 million years ago, ... by German meteorologist Alfred Wegener as a part of his theory of ... Its name is derived from the Greek pangaia, meaning all the Earth. ... Gondwana  Laurasia ... into the supercontinent Pangea that lasted for most of geologic time.
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Pangea - New World Encyclopedia  The name Pangaea was apparently first used in 1920 by the German Alfred ... Wegener proposed the idea of a supercontinent in 1915 in his book The Origin of ... The lithosphere has broken up into what are called "tectonic plates"in the case ... away from Gondwana and headed towards Laurasia, forming on its southern...
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Pangaea - Wikipedia  When Rodinia broke up, it split into three pieces: the supercontinent of Proto-Laurasia, the supercontinent of Proto-Gondwana, and the smaller Congo craton.
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Earthguide: Online Classroom - Definition: Pangaea  Breakup of Gondwanaland. Laurasia. a large supercontinent that existed in ... were clustered into a single large continent called Pangaea that broke apart by seafloor spreading. ... We give a unique name to any single continental landmass today. ... at the time it existed and its existence didn't depend on modern continents.
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The Reference Frame: Anthropocene: a postmodern geological period  Jan 28, 2008 ... Hadean (eon): 4.6-3.8 Gyr BC, named after Hades, a Greek god of the underworld ... Cenosoic (mammals; Greek for "new animals"): 65 Myr BC - today: ... Each geological eon, era, or period is associated with some geological ... Only in Phanerozoic, in about the most recent 10% of the Earth's life, we could...
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[SHUBIN:] Our planet is teeming with many kinds of animal life ...  that buried in the crust of the earth were animals that connected one major group to another. Such ... Over the decades, it's become a standard talking point for those who ... They also all have a backbonethey're vertebrates. The ... too, I mean, no paleontologist had worked on that, expressly looking for early tetrapods.
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The Great 1960 Chile Megaquake - Springer  foreshock to the largest megaquake ever recorded: a main shock of magnitude 9.5, with epicenter about 300 km to the south of Concepcin, known as the great...
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Pangea | supercontinent | Britannica.com  Jun 10, 2016 ... Pangea was surrounded by a global ocean called Panthalassa, and it was fully assembled. ... Its name is derived from the Greek pangaia, meaning all the Earth. ... interior portion of a continent) of Siberia to that combined landmass ... that Earth's continents were once joined together into the supercontinent...
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Key terms - Plate Tectonics - Asthenosphere:, Compression ...  Derived from the Greek words epeiros ("mainland") and genesis ("origins"), ... Historical geology is one of two principal branches of geology, the other being physical ... Plate tectonics theory brings together aspects of continental drift, seafloor ... A term describing a phenomenon whereby certain materials are subject to a...
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Mesozoic - Wikipedia  The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about 252 to 66 million years ago. ... -160 . . -140 . . -120 . . -100 . . -80 . . -60 . . Paleozoic ... The era witnessed the gradual rifting of the supercontinent Pangaea into .... Dinosaurs still thrived as new species such as Tyrannosaurus, Ankylosaurus,...
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Breakup of Pangea - Rutgers University  The Breakup of Pangea: The North America - Africa Connection ... this landmass began to break apart, and the continents began to drift toward their ... Furthermore, the oldest oceanic rocks are found adjacent to the offshore areas ... Some of the depressions (rift basins) that formed during the breakup of Pangea were quite...
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What Was the Large Land Mass That Included All Continents as One ...  In the early 1900s, a German scientist named Alfred Wegener produced a theory ... all of the continents were once joined together in a single land mass, referred to as ... The name Pangaea, or Pangea, borrows from Greek, meaning "all earth".
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Earthguide: Online Classroom - Definition: Pangaea  Pangaea, Gondwanaland, Laurasia and Tethys ... Breakup of Gondwanaland. Laurasia. a large supercontinent that existed in the northern hemisphere before it...
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History of Ancient Supercontinent's Breakup Detailed - Live Science  Apr 28, 2008 ... The breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana eventually formed the continents in the ... Most theories say Gondwana broke into many different pieces, but new ... including the breakup of Pangea into Gondwana and Laurasia. ... the surface, creating a bulge, which caused pieces of the land to break apart.
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Geological time scale - HyperPhysics  The vast expanse of geological time has been separated into eras, periods, .... It is sometimes referred to as the "age of mammals". ... of the Tertiary Period) represents the time period after the major extinction that ... One suggestion is that having just one vast continent may have made seasons much more severe than today.
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Plate Tectonics - Crystalinks  Divergent boundaries occur where two plates slide apart from each other. ... This can erupt to the surface, forming long chains of volcanoes inland from the ... of two supercontinents (the other being Laurasia) which were part of the Pangaea ..... that for the first time allow for the simultaneous modeling of Earth's mantle flow,...
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The Cretaceous Period  The breakup of the world-continent Pangea, which began to disperse during the Jurassic, ... First appearing in the Lower Cretaceous around 125 million years ago, the ... The angiosperms thrived in a variety of environments such as areas with...
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The Paleozoic Era - ScienceViews.com  The Paleozoic Era is bracketed by two major events in earth's history. It began with an unexplained explosion in animal life and ended with the world's largest mass-extinction known to man. ... Near the end of the Paleozoic era the continents began to regroup as the supercontinent ...
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611 - Our One-Continent World: Pangea (Political) | Big Think  But shoehorning today's countries and continents into the Pangea of eons [6] ... first hypothesised what he called Kontinentalverschiebung in a series of articles in ... like the land mass on this map: Africa locked into North and South America to its .... of Guinea-Bissau (the hyphenated geonym includes the name of the capital,...
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Alfred Wegener - Tremor  In 1912, when Alfred Wegener proposed in print that Earth's continents floated ... as the forefather of modern plate tectonics because of his theory of continental drift. ... was once a single supercontinent, which he called Pangea (or Pangaea). ... that all the lands south of the equator had once been part of a single land mass.