paleocontinent

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paleo- +‎ continent

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paleocontinent (plural paleocontinents)

  1. A continent that existed in the geological past.
    • 2012, Henry R. Frankel, The Continental Drift Controversy, volume 1, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 42:
      There was also a northern paleocontinent, Angara-Land, spanning the present-day North Atlantic connecting North America with Europe via Greenland and including the whole of Asia north of the Tethys.

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