The supercontinent that held nearly all of Earth's land in one mass, assembled around 335 million years ago and breaking apart from roughly 200 million years ago into the continents of today. Matching rock formations, mountain belts and fossils stranded on opposite Atlantic shores were Wegener's evidence for it, and its slow dispersal is plate tectonics written at the largest scale. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin YearWegener proposed the supercontinent in 1912; the name Pangaea appears with the 1920 edition of The Origin of Continents and Oceans. Connections
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Pangaea is the reconstruction at the heart of Wegener's continental drift argument.
Source Pangaea (Wikipedia)
The cycle describes the assembly and disassembly of supercontinents.
Source Wilson Cycle (Wikipedia)
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Source Pangaea (Wikipedia)
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Source Pangaea (Wikipedia)
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Pangaea or Pangea ( pan-JEE-ə) was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
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