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Also Known As	Gondwanaland

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Cambrian paleogeography

Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins during the Late Carboniferous. Included in the paleogeographic reconstruction are cold and warm ocean currents. The present-day coastlines and tectonic boundaries of the configured continents are shown in the inset.

Pangea: Late Jurassic Period

A series of four world maps showing the progression of continental drift over time. The maps illustrate the supercontinent Pangaea 225 million years ago, its breakup into Laurasia and Gondwana 150 million years ago, the further separation of continents 100 million years ago, and the current arrangement of continents on Earth today. Continents are labeled in each map.

Devonian paleogeography

Silurian paleogeography

Pangea: Early Triassic Period

Triassic paleogeography

Cambrian paleogeography

Carboniferous paleogeography

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plate tectonics continental drift Pangea Laurasia Rodinia

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Key People

Portrait of Alfred Lothar Wegener wearing a suit and tie, looking directly at the camera.

Alfred Wegener

German meteorologist and geophysicist

Eduard Suess

Eduard Suess

Austrian geologist