Feb 19, 2026 · Over millions of years, the continents broke apart from a single landmass called Pangea and moved to their present positions. Pangea’s formal conceptualization began with Wegener’s work …

Pangaea, having formed recently during the late Carboniferous period, had two major landmasses — Gondwana in the south and Laurussia in the north west with Siberia and Amuria lying north of …

Jul 8, 2022 · Before the Triassic began, approximately 252 million years ago, the plates had moved in such a way that all of the major landmasses had collided with each other, forming a supercontinent …

All Earth's continents were once combined in one supercontinent, Pangaea. Over millions of years, the continents drifted apart. Sound amazing? Believe it or not, the continents have come together and …

Pangaea was surrounded by a giant ocean called Panthalassa, and the movement of the tectonic plates eventually caused it to break apart into the continents we know today. The first person to propose the …

The sequence of maps on this page shows how a large supercontinent known as Pangaea was fragmented into several pieces, each being part of a mobile plate of the lithosphere.

The Pangea map shows the equator to be at the center of the landmass and surrounded by a superocean, Panthalassa. Continental drift is the leading theory to explain the formation and ending …

At the beginning of the age of dinosaurs (during the Triassic Period, about 230 million years ago), the continents were arranged together as a single supercontinent called Pangea.

The continuous movement of tectonic plates, driven by convection currents in the Earth’s mantle, is the mechanism responsible for both the assembly and the break-up of Pangaea.

Jun 7, 2025 · Insights from plate tectonics shed light on the idea that the breakup of Pangea did not occur suddenly, but rather unfolded gradually in three major stages, along distinct rifts.