Pangaea

Pan·gae·a also Pan·ge·a  (pn-j) n. A hypothetical supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic Period. When continental drift began, Pangaea broke up into Laurasia and Gondwanaland. [pan- + Greek gaia, earth.]

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Pangaea  (pn-j) A supercontinent made up of all the world's present landmasses joined together in the configuration they are thought to have had during the Permian and Triassic Periods. According to the theory of plate tectonics, Pangaea later broke up into Laurasia and Gondwanaland, which eventually broke up into the continents we know today.

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Pangaea - (plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland Pangea plate tectonic theory, plate tectonics, tectonics - the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust