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Pangaea

See also: Pangäa and Pangæa

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The breakup of Pangaea.

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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

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  • IPA(key): /pænˈd͡ʒiː.ə/, enPR: păn-jēʹə
  • Hyphenation: pan‧gae‧a
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Pangaea

  2. (geology) A supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.
    • 2021, J. B. Murphy, R. A. Strachan, C. Quesada, editors, Pannotia to Pangaea […] , Geological Society of London, →ISBN, page 82:
      The supercontinent status of Pangaea and Rodinia is undisputed. In contrast, there is ongoing controversy on whether Pannotia existed at all.

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