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- noun (plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland
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Hey, but Rob, you want to clarify exactly what you mean when you say that the earth was covered by pangea?
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You know, this New Madrid Fault, it goes back to the days when, you know, the earth was just covered by pangea.
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MARCIANO: You know, back when the earth was just one large land mass, pangea, that's when this fault formed.
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ROBERTS: Just wanted to make sure that nobody took covered by pangea.
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He also has a big website with lots of fun animated movies to watch, and writes essays, such as “The case against pangea.”
Zach Copley » The weirdest idea I’ve heard this year, so far: The Earth is growing. 2007
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He also has a big website with lots of fun animated movies to watch, and writes essays, such as “The case against pangea.”
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This is already being done at the pangea.de data depository.
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Era una pangea il suo linguaggio: concisa sintesi di un mondo sconosciuto, misterioso labirinto, edenico spazio riservato ad eletti.
Sicily Scene Welshcakes Limoncello 2010
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University www. stanford.edu Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford: woods. stanford.edu Jennifer Wilcox pangea. stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www. youtube.com
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University www. stanford.edu Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford: woods. stanford.edu Jennifer Wilcox pangea. stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www. youtube.com
uselessness commented on the word pangea
So I'm curious. When all the continents were together on one side of the earth, wouldn't that off-centeredness have caused the planet to rotate in a wobbly fashion? That's a lot of weight in one place. And if so, would it affect our orbit around the sun? I'm assuming not, in frictionless space. Still, makes you wonder.
October 19, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pangea
But wouldn't the water be heavier? Just askin'.
October 19, 2007
uselessness commented on the word pangea
Hmm. Not sure about that. It's probably heavier than plain dirt, but I imagine there were plenty of unmined heavy metals underground. There's probably no way to calculate which would be heavier.
October 19, 2007
seanahan commented on the word pangea
Also, pangaea, is the proper spelling.
October 20, 2007
yarb commented on the word pangea
I think pangea, sorry, pangaea, might have had a very slight effect on the earth's rotation. Rock is heavier than water, and the pangaea-side of the earth would also have more volume than the ocean-side (since land is by definition above sea-level). So there would be an imbalance in the earth's crust. But the crust of the earth (including the land and the water) is less than 3% of the earth's total mass. So if the pangaea-side of the earth was 10% heavier than the ocean-side - which I think is a very generous estimate - that would be an absolute difference of about 0.3% of the earth's total mass, which might even get lost in the mix with movements in the mantle.
October 20, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word pangea
There's that, and... are we talking about a time in the earth's history when it was a fully formed relatively spherical planet, and not still wobbly and, you know, gummy like fresh cookie dough that hadn't quite congealed?
Which reminds me of one of my favorite cartoons, a cutaway diagram of the earth with the following labels:
Crust
Mantle
Creamy Nougat Center
October 20, 2007