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Gondwana and Laurasia
Same as the rest of the Appalachians, When the continents that slammed together to form Pangaea, they were raised.
Pangaea was a supercontinent that formed approximately 300 million years ago. It existed during the Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, breaking apart to form the continents we know today after about 100 million years.
The last super-continent is called Pangaea, which was formed about 245 million years ago. Some believe that Pangaea wasn't the first time all the continents were combined. There is evidence that there was another super-continent way before 245 million years ago that is called Rodinia (which separated for a while, then formed back together to form Pangaea, the latest super-continent).
some scientists are starting to think that the earth was once separated and then over millions of years the continents came together as one forming Pangaea which is the Latin root meaning and i quote "all earth." when i was in fifth grade we learned about Pangaea and it happens to be the mantel that formed Pangaea! the mantel moves like an ocean current and the crust (the land part of earth) floats on it so that is how Pangaea formed i hope my answer helped you understand it a little bit better!! :)
Pangaea is the supercontinent that once formed from all the continents.
Gondwana and Laurasia
Laurasia is one of two continents (the other being Gondwana) formed when Pangaea split into two sub-continents, due to plate tectonics.
pangaea
when all the continents where connected a long time ago they formed super continents. example: Pangaea
Yes they were all once connected together and formed the supercontinent Pangaea, Pangaea split apart over millions of years and today it has reached a point where it has been split up into 7 continents.
Same as the rest of the Appalachians, When the continents that slammed together to form Pangaea, they were raised.
Pangaea is the supercontinent that once formed from all the continents.
Crowders Mountain is part of the Appalachians, which formed during the Alleghenian Orogeny. The mountains formed when the continents of the time, Euramerica and Gondwana, collided to form the supercontinent Pangaea. The sections of the continents that collided correspond to the modern continents of Africa and North America.
These continents once formed a supercontinent called Pangaea. Eventually the Pangaea split into two halves and this formed the northern continent of Laurasia and the southern continent of Gondwanaland.
It was called Pangaea - from the Greek words pan (entire) and Gaia (Earth)
The plate tectonics are the mechanisms that started to drift Pangaea (super continent) into separate continents 200billion years ago into the continents we have today. :D