Pangea
Speech parts
1. Pangea - Noun
2. Pangea - Proper noun
Meaning
(plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland
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Examples
Britain was located in the interior of Pangea where it was subject to a hot arid desert climate with frequent flash floods leaving deposits that formed beds of red sedimentary rock.
The Portuguese territory came into existence during the history of Gondwana and became aligned with European landforms after the super-continent Pangea began its slow separation into several smaller plates.
Advisers to Pangea Investors and BRM include Wolf Theiss (legal) and PWC (commercial).
There is debate whether this migration happened over land -- as Australia was still for a time connected to the Middle East before the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart -- or if they rafted on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters.
PANGEA Renaissance Securities Limited chief executive officer Caesar Siwale yesterday told the tribunal that President Rupiah Banda's son, Henry, asked his company to provide support to RP Capital transaction over the valuation of Zamtel assets.
Gondwana then collided with to form the supercontinent of Pangea.