Pangaea!?!?!?

Question

I need people to tell me facts about Pangaea

Answer 1

Basically, it's the supercontinent that formed one big island, before plate tectonic broke it into the continents we now know.
Check out the link, it will give you most (if not all) of the info you need!

Answer 2

Pangaea (Greek: all lands) is the name for the single land mass that Earth is believed to have had from the Permian to the early Jurassic period, when all the Earth's continental plates had collided. It was a C-shaped landmass, with Asia forming the upper curve of the C and a conglomeration of what is now Australia, Antarctica, and India forming the bottom curve of the C. The body of water contained within the crescent of the C is called the Tethys Sea. The surrounding ocean is called Panthalassa (Gr: "all seas"). The Appalachian and Ural mountains were formed as Pangaea came together. At their height the Appalachians were probably more impressive than the Himalayas (they've since been worn down by eons of wind and rain).

The climate during this time period is believed to have been hot and dry, because rainfall had a very hard time reaching the interior of Pangaea, which was largely desert. Despite the fact that the poles were ice free sea levels were about the same as today, because the great mountain ranges that currently underly the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and displace huge volumes of water did not exist.

Pangaea first broke up from north to south, forming an ocean that seperated North America and Asia from the southern land mass, forming two continents. These two continents then broke up into the continents we know today. As this occured huge mountain ranges formed under the ocean, at the rifting boundaries, which raised the sea level to 2-300 meters higher than present day and flooded large portions of the continents. The Rockies and Andes were also formed during this period.

Eventually South America, Australia, India, and Africa would move north, they are presently in the process of colliding with Eurasia and North America.

Answer 3

Short answer: In the very early history of earth, all of the land masses we call continents now were one very large land mass, called Pangaea. (I've heard it referred to as a super-continent.) Pangaea had fault lines, similar to the San Andreas fault line in California that still exists today, that fragmented Pangaea into the continents you know. The continents moved very slowly, inches per century, into their current positions over a period of several hundred million years.

Answer 4

Theory- world earth was young water covered the ground/rock leaving a landmass,big 'ol island.
It's beleived to have been in one basic lump.
No onw was really living there and its known to us now as Pangea. It was boring there and no water ice Kiosks and virtuallly impossible to catch a good concert.
Any way look at a map of the earth now and the continents.
no I mean it go get a map,please.
Pangea is believed to have spread out and seperated, sotra like when people get old and bigger. Any way the one continent split up into others pushed away from each other floating as plates on lava. Proof of the may be (maybe? of course its proof) the way the continents if pushed back together fit like a crazy ol jigsaw puzzle.
check out africa into us and south america. one big giant love hug.
Thanks fo askin!

Answer 5

pangaea means all land. alfred wegner brought a theory of plate tectonics stating that the land used to be all joined together millions of years ago and until up to the carboniferous period (mississippian and pennsylvanian) it started to break apart creating the land we have today.

Answer 6

ok you know all the continent that are here today? well All of those including the islands were one great big mass of earth called pangea! then they broke apart about 150 million years ago and drifted to thier current places as you know them today

Answer 7

You must be more specific: do you want to understand its formation, climate, breakup, location, component parts, geographic placement on the earth's surface, what? Your present question would require a rather thick book.

Answer 8

I hope this helps!!! (on the bottom link go to the bottom of the page! and on the side of the page!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea
http://www.palaeos.com/Earth/Geography/Pangea.htm
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/contin-dr;_ylt=AnsGLAnsEdhhOhr7VU4Gmd5Tt8wF
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/platetec;_ylt=Auuvfsg23AHSiQkv4cTjcXpTt8wF
http://www.historyoftheuniverse.com/pangaea.html
http://www.cabotschool.org/student/trevorweb/Pangaea%202nd%20page.html

Answer 9

No, you need to learn how to search on it. How lazy can you get ?

Answer 10

it wuz big.