Pangaea

• Pangea (US)
• Pangæa (archaic)

From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) +‎ γαῖα (gaîa, “earth, land”), after German Pangäa, which was coined by Alfred Wegener in 1915. Analyzable as pan- +‎ Gaea.

• IPA^(key): /pænˈd͡ʒiː.ə/, enPR: păn-jēʹə

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• Rhymes: -iːə
• Hyphenation: pan‧gae‧a

Pangaea

2. (geology) A former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.
   • 2021, J. B. Murphy, R. A. Strachan, C. Quesada, editors, Pannotia to Pangaea […] , Geological Society of London, →ISBN, page 82:

     The supercontinent status of Pangaea and Rodinia is undisputed. In contrast, there is ongoing controversy on whether Pannotia existed at all.

• supercontinent cycle
• Ur, Vaalbara, Kenorland
• Columbia, Nuna, Hudsonland
• Pannotia
• Rodinia
• Gondwanaland, Gondwana
• Laurasia

• apanage