Pangaea

English

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The breakup of Pangaea.

Alternative forms

• Pangea Primary spelling in American English
• Pangæa

Etymology

From pan- + γαῖα (gaia, “earth, land”), probably after German Pangäa, coined by Alfred Wegener in 1915.

Pronunciation

• pănjē'ə, /pænˈdʒiːə/, SAMPA: /p{n"dZi:@/

• Hyphenation: pan‧gae‧a

Proper noun

Pangaea

1. A supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.

Translations

supercontinent prior to Triassic

Arabic: بانجيا‏ (banjíya) f. Bulgarian: Пангея (bg) (Pangeya) f. Catalan: Pangea f. Chinese: 盤古大陸 (Pángǔ dàlù) Czech: Pangea (cs) f. Danish: Pangæa (da) Dutch: Pangaea f., Pangea f. (popularly written) Esperanto: Pangeo Finnish: Pangea (fi) French: Pangée (fr) f. German: Pangäa (de) f. Greek: Παγγαία (el) (Pangaía) f. Hebrew: פנגיאה (Pangía) f. Italian: Pangea (it) f. Japanese: パンゲア大陸 (Pangea-tairikú) Korean: 판게아 대륙 (Pangea daeryuk)

Latin: Pangaea (la) f. Lithuanian: Pangėja Luxembourgish: Pangäa Persian: پانجه​آ (Panjēā) Polish: Pangea (pl) f. Portuguese: Pangéia f. Russian: Пангея (ru) (Pangéja) f. Slovak: Pangea (sk) f. Slovene: Pangea (sl) f. Spanish: Pangea (es) f. Swedish: Pangea (sv) Thai: พันเจีย (panjia), ยุคเอกทวีป (yóok èk tá-wêep) Turkish: Pangea (tr) Vietnamese: Pangaea (vi) Walloon: Pandjêye

See also

• Gondwanaland, Gondwana
• Laurasia
• Rodinia

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