Pangaea

See also: Pangäa and Pangæa

English
The breakup of Pangaea.

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) + γαῖα (gaîa, “earth, land”), after German Pangäa, which was coined by Alfred Wegener in 1915.

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  • enPR: pănjē'ə, IPA(key): /pænˈdʒiːə/
  • Hyphenation: pan‧gae‧a

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Pangaea

  1. (geology) A supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.

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