Although scientists agreed with Wegener that there had been a supercontinent, they disliked the reasoning behind continental ...

In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know today were once all attached in a single landmass he called Pangaea (Greek for "all earth"). They were surrounded by one global ocean, but then ...

The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas Mountains were actually all part of the same mountain range on Pangaea, but were torn apart by continental drift.

In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know today were once all attached in a single landmass he called Pangaea (Greek for "all earth"). They were surrounded by one global ocean, but then ...

we mean around 230 million years ago), there used to be one big supercontinent called Pangea but as we all know this slowly broke apart what emerged the continental drift is the world we’re ...

oceanic crust on the edges of Rodinia and later Pangaea continued to subduct beneath the continents. This subduction eroded portions of the continental rock, creating a funnel effect as tectonic ...