Meanings
proper noun
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Pangaea: (geology) A former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.
Some 200 million years ago, the rocks that became the Palisades cliffs just across the Hudson River from Manhattan formed during volcanic activity that helped rip apart the ancient supercontinent Pangea.
2022 February 3, Lucas Joel, “Dissolving in Toxic Oceans: How an Ancient Extinction Happened”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2022
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Pangea. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pangea
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