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Pangea
Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins near the end of the Permian Period. Included in the paleogeographic reconstruction are the locations of the interval's subduction zones.
German meteorologist Alfred Wegener first presented the concept of Pangea and his theory of continental drift in 1912 during a series of scientific lectures. He later published these ideas in full in his 1915 work, The Origin of Continents and Oceans (Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane).12