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Mountains formed by plate convergence
... supercontinent Laurasia, while Antarctica, Africa, Arabia, India, Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand and South America formed the supercontinent Gondwanaland. During this time Laurasia and Gondwanaland were colliding to form the single giant supercontinent Pangea ... converged to form the single supercontinent Pangea. About 213 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, Pangea began breaking apart and ...
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East Everglades Orchids Society
... southern land mass of Gondwana smashed into the northern land mass of Laurasia, forming the supercontinent Pangea. When Pangea split apart some 70 million years later, a little piece of what became ... margin near Senegal, and was only rifted from that margin during the Triassic breakup of Pangea. . Specific [geologic] units in West Africa can be correlated with their apparent counterparts underlying ...
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The evolution of plants: III. Permian, Triassic, Jurassic and Early Cretaceous
... is related to the fact that all continents were slowly drifted together and formed one supercontinent (Pangea). This caused an enormous inner land with an extreme and arid climate. That is ... The ferns continued their evolution like they do until now. The southern part of the supercontinent Pangea, composed of Africa, Australia, Antarctica and India, is called Gondwana or Gondwanaland. During the ...
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Lezingen
... meer te maken met het feit dat alle continenten met elkaar verenigd waren tot het supercontinent Pangea. Dit alles had grote invloed op de evolutie van de levensvormen. Aan het eind van ... gegeven van de ontwikkeling van het leven in samenhang met de ligging van de continenten (Pangea was aan het opsplitsen) en het (warme) klimaat. De verschillende diergroepen en hun fossielen komen ...
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LIVING FOSSILS AT PALOMAR COLLEGE
... cycads and extinct cycadeoids once thrived on earth, the continents were united into an enormous supercontinent named Pangea (approximately 200 million years ago). Evidence from plate tectonics shows that large plates of ...
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Continental Drift & Plant Distribution
... 200 million years ago, the continents were joined into one supercontinent that Wegener called Pangea (Figure A). By 135 million years ago, Pangea had divided into two large subcontinents called Gondwanaland and ... ancient precursors of cycads) once thrived on earth, the continents were united into an enormous supercontinent named Pangaea. The gradual movement of large plates of the earth's crust has ...
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Links for Palaeobotanists 1
... Ice Ages, Tree Rings, Ice Cores, Coral Reefs and much more. Go to: Tree Rings. Pangea International, Inc. (a petroleum consulting firm): Geology.com. This site provides quality URL links to ... , University of California at Berkeley: New evidence links mass extinction with massive eruptions that split Pangea supercontinent and created the Atlantic 200 million years ago. NEWS RELEASE, 4/22/99. See also ...
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de

Pennsylvanian Period
... relatively well-behaved. Sometime during the Triassic Period, the collision was complete, and the supercontinent of Pangea was formed. The Pangean mountain- building supplied sediments which began forming deltas in southeastern West ...
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Cycad International : Katherine NT Australia
... flowering plants appeared, cycads—along with ferns and conifers—dominated the landscape of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea. Stegosaurs and iguanadons fed on their leathery leaves. Then as now, some had trunks ...
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UCMP Glossary: L
... must become a pupa before reaching adulthood. Laurasia -- n. A supercontinent that existed from the Jurassic to Early Tertiary after splitting from Pangea; composed of Laurentia, Baltica, Avalonia, (modern North America, Scandinavia ...
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