ancient continent
Long-gone continental body
A landmass that existed in Earth's geological past, often broken apart by continental drift over millions of years.
Pangaea, Gondwana, and Laurasia are ancient continents whose fragments became today's continents.
The term also appears in fantasy and science fiction to evoke lost civilizations: legends of an ancient continent swallowed by the sea.
- PangaeaPrehistoric unified landmass
- GondwanaAncient southern supercontinent
- landmassContinuous area of ground
- land bridgeTerrain joining two continents
- driftGradual movement, no direction
deep time · tectonic · prehistoric · supercontinent · fossil · primordial · Atlantis · Lemuria · geological · plates · rift · plate tectonics · shifting · dinosaurs · mass extinction · lost world · epoch · Mesozoic
ancient continentAfrica
Second-largest continent
Australia · Antarctica · South America · North America · Europe
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