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Pangaea or Pangea (/ p æ n ˈ dʒ iː ə / pan-JEE-ə) [1] was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. [2] It assembled from the earlier continental units of Gondwana , Euramerica and Siberia during the Carboniferous approximately 335 million years ago, and began to break apart about 200 million years ...
Antonio Snider-Pellegrini (1802–1885) was a French geographer and geologist who theorized about the possibility of continental drift, anticipating Wegener's theories concerning Pangaea by several decades. In 1858, Snider-Pellegrini published his book, La Création et ses mystères dévoilés ("The Creation and its Mysteries Unveiled").
Peter LeTourneau and Paul Olsen (ed.), (2003) The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America, vol. 1-2, published by Columbia University Press. Volume 1: Tectonics, Structure, and Volcanism (ISBN 0-231-11162-2), Volume 2: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Paleontology (ISBN 0-231-12676-X)
He proposed that the continents had once formed a single landmass, called Pangaea, before breaking apart and drifting to their present locations. [ 32 ] Wegener was the first to use the phrase "continental drift" (1912, 1915) [ 5 ] [ 18 ] ( German : "die Verschiebung der Kontinente" ) and to publish the hypothesis that the continents had ...
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The supercontinent Pangaea was rifting during the Triassic—especially late in the period—but had not yet separated. The first nonmarine sediments in the rift that marks the initial break-up of Pangea—which separated New Jersey from Morocco—are of Late Triassic age; in the U.S., these thick sediments comprise the Newark Supergroup. [44]
Pictured is a lump of 66-million-year-old vomit found on the Cliffs of Stevns, a geological site on the Danish island of Zealand that is comprised of a 15 km-long fossil-rich coastal cliff.
The new park is dedicated in honor of Holmdel resident and Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert Woodrow Wilson, who discovered the evidence for the Big Bang Theory of evolution at the site in 1964. Holmdel ...