Pangaea - Wikipedia
网页Pangaea or Pangea (/ p æ n ˈ dʒ iː. ə /) [1] was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. [2] It assembled from the earlier continental units of Gondwana , Euramerica and Siberia during the Carboniferous approximately 335 million years ago, and began to break apart about 200 million years ago, at the ...
Pangea | Definition, Map, History, & Facts | Britannica
网页2024年7月22日 · Pangea, in early geologic time, a supercontinent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth. Pangea was surrounded by a global ocean called Panthalassa, and it was fully assembled by the Early Permian Epoch (some 299 million to about 273 million years ago).
Facts about Pangaea, ancient supercontinent - Live Science
网页2024年3月5日 · Pangaea was a massive supercontinent that formed between 320 million and 195 million years ago. At that time, Earth didn't have seven continents, but instead one giant one, which was surrounded...
Spotting a Supercontinent: How Pangea Was Discovered
网页Within the next 250 million years, Africa and the Americas will merge with Eurasia to form a supercontinent that approaches Pangean proportions. Such an episodic assembly of the world’s landmasses has been called the supercontinent cycle or, in honor of Wegener, the Wegenerian cycle.
What was Pangea? | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
网页What was Pangea? From about 300-200 million years ago (late Paleozoic Era until the very late Triassic), the continent we now know as North America was contiguous with Africa, South America, and Europe. They all existed as a single continent called Pangea.
Power of Plate Tectonics: Pangaea | AMNH
网页This gigantic continent, called Pangaea, slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we know today. All Earth's continents were once combined in one supercontinent, Pangaea. Over millions of years, the continents drifted apart.
Pangea Facts | Britannica
网页Pangea, supercontinent that incorporated almost all of Earth’s landmasses in early geologic time. Fully assembled by the Early Permian Epoch (some 299 million to about 273 million years ago), it began to break apart about 200 million years ago, eventually forming the modern continents and the Atlantic and Indian oceans.