superocean

plural superoceans

1. An ocean surrounding a supercontinent.

   A single supercontinent, called Pangea, came into, existence, together with a single superocean called Panthalassa.

   1992, Cesare Emiliani, Planet Earth: Cosmology, Geology, and the Evolution of Life and Environment, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 239

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   The energy involved is of a magnitude difficult to visualize; for each valve will then be releasing about 230,000 hp, the total for each group of six being equal to 1,380,000 hp, or the equivalent of seven superocean liners each of the same power capacity as that of the "Queen Mary.".

   1952, Calvin Victor Davis, Handbook of Applied Hydraulics, McGraw-Hill, page 376

   Reduced to its simplest scenario the earth appears to have consisted essentially of a single ‘‘supercontinent’’, Pangaea, surrounded by “‘superocean”’ Panthalassa in the late Paleozoic.

   1978, Introduction to Marine Micropaleontology, Elsevier, page 14

   To study the evolution of world ocean from a single supercontinent and superocean 200 million years ago to the fragmented system we have today.

   1979, Ocean Science, Nautilus Press, page 2

   The main reason for interest in Jurassic sediments from the Pacific is that they chronicle the paleoenvironment of the Jurassic superocean, which covered two-thirds of the Earth at the time, but for which we have no direct record.

   1990, Ocean Drilling Program, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Peport: Part A, The Program, page 92