Pangaea

See also: Pangäa and Pangæa

English

The breakup of Pangaea.

Alternative forms

• Pangea (US)
• Pangæa

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) + γαῖα (gaîa, “earth, land”), after (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Pangäa, which was coined by Alfred Wegener in 1915.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pănjē'ə, IPA^(key): /pænˈdʒiːə/
• Hyphenation: pan‧gae‧a

Proper noun

Pangaea

2. (geology) A supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.

Derived terms

• Pangaean

Translations

supercontinent prior to Triassic

• Arabic: بَانْجِيَا f (banjiyā)
• Bulgarian: Пангея f (Pangeja)
• Catalan: Pangea f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盤古大陸／盘古大陆 (Pángǔ Dàlù), 盘古大陆 (Pángǔ dàlù)

• Czech: Pangea f
• Danish: Pangæa
• Dutch: Pangaea f, Pangea f (popularly written)
• Esperanto: Pangeo
• Finnish: Pangea
• French: Pangée (fr) f
• German: Pangäa (de) f
• Greek: Παγγαία (el) f (Pangaía)
• Hebrew: פנגיאה f (Pangía)
• Italian: Pangea (it) f
• Japanese: パンゲア大陸 (Pangea-tairikú)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 판게아 대륙 (Pan'gea daeryuk)
• Latin: Pangaea f
• Lithuanian: Pangėja
• Luxembourgish: Pangäa
• Persian: پانجهآ (pânje'â)
• Polish: Pangea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Pangeia f
• Russian: Панге́я (ru) f (Pangéja)
• Slovak: Pangea f
• Slovene: Pangea f
• Spanish: Pangea (es) f
• Swedish: Pangea (sv)
• Thai: พันเจีย (panjia), ยุคเอกทวีป (yóok èk tá-wêep)
• Turkish: Pangea
• Vietnamese: Pangaea
• Walloon: Pandjêye

See also

• Ur, Vaalbara, Kenorland
• Rodinia, Pannotia
• Gondwanaland, Gondwana
• Laurasia

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