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- In geology, a supercontinent is the ****embly of most or all of Earth's continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landm****. However, some geologists...
- Pangaea or Pangea (/pænˈdʒiːə/ pan-JEE-ə) was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It ****embled from the earlier...
- Columbia, also known as Nuna or Hudsonland, is a hypothetical ancient supercontinent. It was first proposed by John J.W. Rogers and M. Santosh in 2002 and...
- the continental shelf. South America broke off from the west of the supercontinent Gondwana around 135 million years ago, forming its own continent. Around...
- Amasia is a possible ****ure supercontinent which could be formed by the merger of Asia and the Americas. The prediction relies mostly on the fact that...
- the Vendian supercontinent, Greater Gondwana, and the Pan-African supercontinent, was a relatively short-lived Neoproterozoic supercontinent that formed...
- Vaalbara today Vaalbara is a hypothetical Archean supercontinent consisting of the Kaapvaal Craton (now in eastern South Africa) and the Pilbara Craton...
- Ur is a hypothetical supercontinent that formed in the Archean eon around 3.1 billion years ago (Ga). In a reconstruction by Rogers, Ur is half a billion...
- "motherland, birthplace") was a Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic supercontinent that ****embled 1.26–0.90 billion years ago (Ga) and broke up 750–633...
- The supercontinent cycle is the quasi-periodic aggregation and dispersal of Earth's continental crust. There are varying opinions as to whether the amount...