Pangaea
Ancient unified continent
Pangaea is the name given to the supercontinent that existed roughly 300 million years ago, when all of Earth's landmasses were joined as a single body.
The continents later drifted apart to their current positions.
The term occasionally appears figuratively for any unified whole that later fragments: Before the breakup, the company was a Pangaea of media properties.
Combined planetary landmass
- continental driftGradual landmass repositioning
- landmassContinuous area of ground
- plate tectonicsEarth's crust mobility theory
- GondwanaAncient southern supercontinent
paleogeography · craton · rift · breakup · assembly · Triassic · Permian · lithosphere
Preserved ancient organism traces
- dinosaursExtinct prehistoric reptiles
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- faunaAnimal life collectively
flora · migration · biogeography · fossil record · evolution · ancient life · paleobiology · vertebrates
Wholeness through cohesion
- wholenessComplete, undivided state
- interconnectionMutual joining of parts
- onenessState of being unified
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
reunion · unification · totality · integration · consolidation · singularity · completeness · togetherness
supercontinent
Combined planetary landmass
- continental driftGradual landmass repositioning
- landmassContinuous area of ground
- plate tectonicsEarth's crust mobility theory
Gondwana · paleogeography · craton · rift · breakup · assembly · Triassic · Permian · lithosphere · continental shelf
fossils
Preserved ancient organism traces
- dinosaursExtinct prehistoric reptiles
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
fauna · flora · migration · biogeography · fossil record · evolution · ancient life · paleobiology · vertebrates · ferns
unity
Wholeness through cohesion
- wholenessComplete, undivided state
- interconnectionMutual joining of parts
- onenessState of being unified
convergence · reunion · unification · totality · integration · consolidation · singularity · completeness · togetherness · primordial
- Mesozoicdinosaurs, Velociraptor, Brachiosaurus, Spinosaurus, pterosaurs
- Earth historyice age, geological time, extinction, eons, fossil
- geologic historyCambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous
- plate tectonicstectonic plates, plate tectonics, plate boundaries, subduction, subduction zones
- Ancient EarthGondwana, Tethys Sea, supercontinent, primordial sea, continental drift
- Triassicarchosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, Pangea, Tethys Sea
Pangaeabreakup
Romantic relationship's termination
dispersal · separation · disintegration · archipelago · ocean basins
Pangaeaseven continents