Incredible Map of Pangea With Modern-Day Borders As volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occasionally remind us, the earth beneath our feet is constantly on the move. Continental plates only move around 1-4 inches per year, so we don’t notice the tectonic forces that are continually reshaping the...
Pangea, supercontinent that incorporated almost all of Earth’s landmasses in early geologic time. Fully assembled by the Early Permian Epoch (some 299 million to about 273 million years ago), it began to break apart about 200 million years ago, eventual
Despite the stable position, major changes occurred to its relation to other landmasses as the remains of Pangea continued to break apart. By the beginning of the Late Cretaceous epoch South America had split off from Africa, completing the southern half of the Atlantic Ocean. This event had ...