Science news articles about 'supercontinent pangaea'

A plume of superheated rock from deep in Earth's crust welled up between the ancient continents, pushing them apart until they collided to form Pangaea, a new study proposes.

... Age, occurred 300 million years ago. During this time, the continents assembled into the supercontinent Pangaea; sediments from the southern high latitudes preserve abundant evidence for large-scale ...

... million years ago, the region was part of the tropics. The continents then were assembled into the supercontinent Pangaea. Soreghan and colleagues published their results in the August 2008, issue of ...