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What is a supercontinent?

What is a supercontinent? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A very large continent that split into smaller ones in the Earth’s geologic past.
  2. A modern landmass composed of multiple continents, i.e. Afro-Eurasia or the Americas. (Compare subcontinent).
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Some 250 million years ago, all the continents were grouped into a single supercontinent known as Pangaea.
If the past pattern holds, Dr Rogers predicts that a new supercontinent will be formed in about 500m years' time.
The hundred million years and more of Pangean history saw a succession of cosmopolitan animal dynasties spread over the entire supercontinent.
Of the three domains, the Eastern Domain sits farthest inboard, i.e. closest to the core of the former Gondwana supercontinent.
Amalgamation of the late Palaeozoic supercontinent Pangaea led to the collision of Gondwana with Laurasia forming the Variscan orogen.
About 500m years later, its pieces reassembled to form yet another supercontinent, called Rodinia.

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