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What Did Pangaea Look like
Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my knowledge of geography to create a basic map of what this land might have ...
Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart, around 200 million years ago. Oceans filled the areas between these new sub-continents.
The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...
Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia, and South America were all one continent called Pangea. Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent ...
A figure, which appears to spell out “Bismillah” (In the name of Allah), was observed on a marble slab found in a marble ...
During the wet season, megamonsoons swept across Pangaea and turned dry-season streamlets into thunderous, roiling rivers. One rainy season more than 200 million years ago, an enormous volcano ...
About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly, this giant continent, called Pangaea, broke apart and ...