PANGAEA

Meaning of PANGAEA in English

geographical name hypothetical land area believed to have once connected the landmasses of the southern hemisphere with those of the northern hemisphere

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PANGAEA — /pan jee"euh/ , n. Geol. the hypothetical landmass that existed when all continents were joined, from about 300 to 200 …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PANGAEA — n. theoretical supercontinent that broke apart approximately 200 million years ago and created the current 7 separate continents on Earth …
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PANGAEA — geographical name hypothetical land area believed to have once connected the landmasses of the southern hemisphere with those of the …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PANGAEA — (from Greek pangaia, all earth), hypothetical protocontinent proposed by the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener in 1912 as a part of …
Britannica English vocabulary
PANGAEA — Pangaea BrE AmE pæn ˈdʒi ː ‿ə
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PANGAEA — / pænˈdʒiːə; NAmE / noun [ sing. ] ( geology ) an extremely large area of land which existed millions …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PANGAEA — Pan ‧ gae ‧ a /pænˈdʒiːə/ BrE AmE the very large area of land that existed as the only land …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PANGAEA — Pangaea
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PANGAEA — Pangaea
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PANGAEA — Пангея
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
PANGAEA — Pangaea
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PANGAEA — Pangaea
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
PANGAEA — n. Pronunciation: pan- ' j ē - ə Function: geographical name hypothetical land area believed to have once connected the …
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TETHYS — I. noun Etymology: Latin, from Greek Tēthys Date: 1567 a Titaness and wife of Oceanus, II. geographical name hypothetical sea …
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PANGEA — or Pangaea Hypothetical protocontinent proposed by continental drift . Pangea (from Greek: pangaia , "all earth") supposedly covered about half …
Английский словарь Британика
LAURASIA — Hypothetical former supercontinent in the Southern Hemisphere, which included modern North America, Europe, and Asia (except peninsular India). The concept …
Английский словарь Британика
CONTINENTAL DRIFT — Large-scale movements of continent s over the course of geologic time. The first complete theory of continental drift was proposed …
Английский словарь Британика
SUPERCONTINENT — /sooh'peuhr kon"tn euhnt/ , n. Geol. a hypothetical protocontinent of the remote geologic past that rifted apart to form the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TETHYS — I. ˈtē-thəs noun Etymology: Latin, from Greek Tēthys Date: 1567 : a Titaness and wife of Oceanus II. ˈtē-thəs geographical …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SOUTHERN AFRICA, HISTORY OF
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PLANATION SURFACE — any low-relief plain cutting across varied rocks and structures. Among the most common landscapes on Earth, planation surfaces include pediments, …
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PALEOCLIMATOLOGY — also spelled Palaeoclimatology, scientific study of the extended climatic conditions of past geologic ages. Paleoclimatologists seek to explain climate variations …
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CONTINENTAL DRIFT — the large-scale horizontal movements of continents relative to one another and to the ocean basins during one or more episodes …
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YEAR IN REVIEW 2001: EARTH-AND-SPACE-SCIENCES — Earth Sciences Geology and Geochemistry In 2000 J.L. Kirschvink (California Institute of Technology) published a novel report (with six coauthors …
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WEGENER, ALFRED LOTHAR — born Nov. 1, 1880, Berlin, Ger. died November 1930, Greenland German meteorologist and geophysicist who formulated the first complete statement …
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TRIASSIC PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. first period of …
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TETHYS — one of the eight large, regular satellites of Saturn. Essentially composed of pure water ice, Tethys has a diameter of …
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SOUTH AMERICA — fourth largest of the world's continents. It is the southern portion of the landmass generally referred to as the New …
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PERMIAN PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. last period of …
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JURASSIC PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. second of three …
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DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT — area in northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah, U.S., set aside in 1915 to preserve rich fossil beds that include dinosaur …
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