The only logical cause of the breakup of the supercontinent is the flood mentioned in The Bible. Noah's flood broke the supercontinent into different sections.
Its Laurasia and Gondwana..
In 1966 J. Tuzo Wilson proposed that there has been a continuous series of cycles of continental rifting and collision. That is, break-up of super-continents, drifting and collision and formation of other super-continents.
If you are counting the current seven continents Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Antarctica and Australia as super continents the three other super continents are: Pangea, Rodinia and Laurasia.
when all the continents where connected a long time ago they formed super continents. example: Pangaea
The oldest of the super continents was called Rodinia
Well a super continent refers to Pangaea. which was a great land mass that contained all seven continents. Another form of super continent is a huge land mass with all the necessaries needed by living.
Pangaea began to break up during the Jurassic period, around 180 million years ago. This breakup eventually led to the formation of the continents as we know them today.
The large supercontinent that existed before the continents began to separate was called Pangaea. It formed about 335 million years ago and began to break apart roughly 175 million years ago.
Continental drift :)
The continents look like that because they use to be a SUPER-CONTINENT called PANGAEA.
No. Antarctica is one of the modern continents. The continent the broke up in the Mesozoic was called Pangaea.
If I am not mistaken, the answer is Pangea.