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What were the earthquakes in Pangaea like?

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Im sure that is was extremely seismically active by todays standards. Remember, Pangae broke apart to form the continents we know today. This happened due to faults in the Pangaen crust and mantle that were breaking apart. read more

Where these faults were on the Pangaen continent coincide with the coastlines of todays continents. Some may have began as strike-slip or even dip-slip faults that eventually turned into subduction zones or spreading rift zones depending on which plates they came into contact with later. read more

And mountain chains that now lie on different continents, such as the Appalachians in the United States and the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, were all part of the Central Pangaea Mountains, formed through the collision of the supercontinents Gondwana and Laurussia. read more

This could have created some wind-scoured valleys and passes through coastal highlands like those found in Antartica today. Maybe bigger, maybe more frequently found. Later in the history of Pangea, maybe the entire continent eroded to something like a 'super-Australia' - mostly arid in the middle, moist along the coasts. read more

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