Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A supercontinent that included all the world's landmasses in the late Paleozoic and, according to the theory of plate tectonics, subsequently broke apart into Laurasia and Gondwana.
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- proper noun A
supercontinent that included all thelandmasses of theearth before theTriassic period and that broke up intoLaurasia andGondwana .
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- noun (plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland
Etymologies
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All the great continents of the world, he suggested, had once been joined up in a gigantic super-continent, which he called Pangaea.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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All the great continents of the world, he suggested, had once been joined up in a gigantic super-continent, which he called Pangaea.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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"The goal of Pangaea is to remain independent forever and not sell the company," he says.
Pangea Organic's line of natural skin-care products is growing 2009
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Jan. 6, 1912: Alfred Wegner, a German scientist and explorer, stuns a meeting of the German Geological Association when he presents a theory that all of the Earth’s continents were once part of a supercontinent he called Pangaea, but that tidal forces caused them to drift apart.
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Some 250 million years ago, the Earth contained a single landmass known as Pangaea.
The Real Story of Globalization Charles C. Mann 2011
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"The Pangaea is a very practical boat because you can switch everything off and run it by hand, so if the hydrolics fail, we can still sail the boat manually."
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Last time all the landmass clumped up, it formed a supercontinent called Pangaea.
News 2012
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Last time all the landmass clumped up, it formed a supercontinent called Pangaea.
News 2012
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The continents are last thought to have come together 300 million years ago into a supercontinent called Pangaea.
BBC News - Home 2012
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Scientists have long thought that Earth's continents once formed a "supercontinent" called Pangaea.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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