EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Laurasia.
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Pangaea.
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Eurasia.
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Gondwana.
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Detailed explanation-1: -At the beginning of the age of dinosaurs (during the Triassic Period, about 230 million years ago), the continents were arranged together as a single supercontinent called Pangea. During the 165 million years of dinosaur existence this supercontinent slowly broke apart.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1912, German scientist Alfred Wegener proposed that Earth’s continents once formed a single, giant landmass, called Pangaea. Over millions of years, Pangaea slowly broke apart, eventually forming the continents as they are today.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pangea’s existence was first proposed in 1912 by German meteorologist Alfred Wegener as a part of his theory of continental drift. Its name is derived from the Greek pangaia, meaning “all the Earth.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Pangea. / (pænˈdʒiːə) / noun. the ancient supercontinent, comprising all the present continents joined together, which began to break up about 200 million years agoSee also Laurasia, Gondwanaland.
Detailed explanation-5: -In geology, a supercontinent is the assembly of most or all of Earth’s continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landmass.