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Pangaea

name
/pænˈd͡ʒiː.ə/

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.

  1. borrowed from Pangäa

Definitions

  1. A former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic…

    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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA