Even after Pangaea broke up, these signatures persisted ... Why supercontinents break up isn't entirely understood, but it is thought to involve hot mantle material rising from deep mantle regions ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

and Pangaea, which formed around 335 million years ago and began breaking up 200 million years ago. "What we observe today is essentially the result of transitions from Rodinia to Pangaea ...

Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent proceeded to break up, forming the continents we know today. Pangea essentially turned inside out, the edges of the old continent ...

the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea continued and accelerated. Laurasia, the northern half, broke up into North America and Eurasia. Gondwana, the southern half, began to break up by the mid ...