Urkontinent
German edit
Etymology edit
ur- + Kontinent. Coined by German climatologist and geologist Alfred Wegener, who developed the concept of continental drift.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Urkontinent
- Former name of Pangäa (“Pangaea”).
- Synonym of Ur (“the paleocontinent of Ur”)
Noun edit
Urkontinent
- paleocontinent (a former continent that existed in the past)
- Coordinate term: Urozean
Descendants edit
- → English: ur-continent
Further reading edit
Urkontinent on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
