Answer: Pangaea
Continental drift – Wikipedia
Supercontinent – Wikipedia
Continental drift – Wikipedia
Supercontinent – Wikipedia
Continental drift is the hypothesis that the Earth’s continents have moved over geologic time relative to each other thus appearing to have “drifted” across the ocean bed. The speculation that continents might have ‘drifted’ was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596. The concept was independently and more fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912 but his hypothesis was rejected by …
The name ” Pangaea/Pangea ” is derived from Ancient Greek pan ( πᾶν “all entire whole”) and Gaia ( Γαῖα ” Mother Earth land”). The concept that the continents once formed a contiguous land mass was first proposed by Alfred Wegener the originator of the scientific theory of continental drift in his 1912 publication The Origin of Continents ( Die Entstehung der Kontinente ).
In 1915 in the first edition of his book Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane written in German Wegener drew together evidence from various fields to advance the theory that there had once been a giant continent which he named ” Urkontinent …
In geology a supercontinent is the assembly of most or all of Earth’s continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landmass . However some earth scientists use a different definition: “a grouping of formerly dispersed continents ” which leaves room for interpretation and is easier to apply to Precambrian times although a minimum of about 75% of the continental crust then in existence …
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