Pangaea Supercontinent

Pangaea was a supercontinent that formed about 335 million years ago and began to break apart around 175 million years ago. At its largest, Pangaea was estimated to be about 120,000 square kilometers in size, encompassing nearly all of Earth's landmasses.

It is not likely that Pangaea will form again as tectonic plates continue to shift and drift apart due to geological processes. The movement of these plates shapes the Earth's surface over millions of years, which makes a reunification of Pangaea improbable in the foreseeable future.

The two continents that Pangaea first split into are Laurasia and Gondwana. Laurasia eventually further divided to form North America and Eurasia, while Gondwana separated into South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and the Indian subcontinent.

Pangaea was a supercontinent that existed about 335 million years ago, and it included almost all of Earth's landmasses joined together. It had a distinctive single landmass configuration, with some of the current continents as we know them today joined into one large landmass.

The super continent Pangaea that existed millions of years ago is now broken into many pieces of large land masses, therefore, becoming the continents that we live on today.

Given the time line and the possible seabed structure of the area in question, It could be supposed that there may have been some other area of dry land? General ideas of gyro dynamics and balance say that the earth could not have maintained its spin and solar course if there were nothing on the other side of Pangaea to balance things out some.

Mainstream science will barely even speak of what was directly opposite Pangaea to my knowledge, they just don't know!! I have the feeling that if posed with the question most modern day scientists would try to put the hush hush on the whole thing saying; "Nothing but water. Why do you ask?" or something to the effect of how my college professor put the mystery of black holes back in the 70's " Don't let it bother your scholastic career with such ideas. Think on them for an hour and then get on to what we know." It was a cop out then and I assume nothings changed. Perhaps it was the site of a massive meteor strike that caused the break up of the super continent in the first place? Who knows? But given that this is an area covering more than 3/4 of the planet at the time, you'd think that they (modern scientists) would be more interested!!? It is unfortunately they are not.

Yes, according to my professor:

"The sea-floor subsides as it cools, the amount depending on the time the lithosphere has had to cool and thicken. This means that the volume of the ocean basins increases with the mean age of the ocean floor, and that sea level tends to decrease in consequence with the mean age of the ocean floor (because the same amount of sea water sits lower relative to continents). When sea floor production speeds up, as when the midocean ridge system lengthens during a supercontinent's breakup, sea level tends to rise. When sea floor production slows down, as when the midocean ridge system shortens during a supercontinent's assembly, sea level tends to fall. Thus sea level tends to rise during a supercontinent's breakup.

Well the the molten layer pushed the tectonic plates apart splitting Africa to the South-east and pushing south America to the south-west when the molten layer was pushing the other plates you will see that the Continent's was looking like Today

Laurasia and Gondwanaland were part of the supercontinent Pangaea, which formed around 335 million years ago through the collision and joining of several smaller landmasses. As tectonic plates shifted and moved over millions of years, Laurasia drifted northward and Gondwanaland moved southwards to eventually break apart and form the continents we know today.

The two continents that formed when Pangaea broke apart are Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. These two supercontinents eventually broke up further to form the continents we have today.

Pangea first separated into two large land masses in Mesozoic Era(from 245 to 64 million years ago) or in Triassic Period.
Pangaea broke into Gondwana and Laurasia approx. 180 million years ago.

It split up into various continents and India attached to Asia.

Pangaea broke apart due to the movement of tectonic plates, which caused the supercontinent to gradually split into separate landmasses. This shift in the Earth's crust created the Atlantic Ocean as it is today and reshaped the continents into their current positions.

The earth has about 13 to 14 plates. These plates shift constantly. As you can see on earth because the cause earthquakes when thay collide. Anyways, the plates moved on Pangea causing them to *DRIFT* away from each other and be in there current places today.

Another way to spell Pangaea is Pangea. Both spellings refer to the ancient supercontinent that existed approximately 335 million years ago.

The theory of Pangaea was proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. He suggested that the continents were once joined together before breaking apart and drifting to their current positions.

The total land area of Pangaea was roughly 30% larger than the total land area of all continents today. Pangaea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, before breaking apart into separate landmasses due to tectonic plate movements.

Gondwana was a supercontinent that existed from about 600 to 180 million years ago. It included present-day South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica.

The two smaller supercontinents created by the break up of the supercontinent Pangaea are Laurasia in the northern hemisphere and Gondwana in the southern hemisphere.

There is 6 and ther names are North America, South America , Eurasia , Africa , Australia , and Antarctica.

By a geographical feature, usually water, but not necessarily. Europe and Asia are separated by rivers and mountain ranges, and the two are sometimes referred to as Eurasia. North America and South America are connected by the Isthmus of Panama, and they are sometimes referred to as the Americas.

Laurasia was the northern landmass that broke away from Pangaea. The modern day continents located in Laurasia were Europe (without Balkans), Asia (without India), and North America.

Gondwana was the southern landmass that broke away from Pangaea. The modern day continents and countries located in Gondwana were Africa, South America, Australia, India, Arabia, Antarctica, and the European Balkans.

Pangea split into two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana. Laurasia includes the core of the North America, Asia (without India) and Europe (without the Balkans) Gondwana composed most of Africa, South America, Australia, India, Arabia, Antarctica and the Balkans.

The same old forces that move the individual tectonic plates. The circulating currents of magma from the interior.

There may have been a previous episode of super-continent formation followed by break up, called Rodinia by believers.