How do geologist describe Pangaea?

Pangaea was a super continent that existed about 300 million years ago surrounded by a single ocean Panthalassa. read more

Pangaea was a supercontinent that was formed by assembly of all the landmasses on the Earth. This continuous land was surrounded by a super ocean called pantalasa. Pangaea began to break apart about 200 million years ago, eventually forming present day continents and oceans. read more

The breakup of the Pangaea supercontinent. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey About 300 million years ago, Earth didn't have seven continents, but instead one massive supercontinent called Pangaea, which was surrounded by a single ocean called Panthalassa. read more

The name "Pangaea/Pangea" is derived from Ancient Greek pan (πᾶν, "all, entire, whole") and Gaia (Γαῖα, "Mother Earth, land"). The concept that the continents once formed a continuous land mass was first proposed by Alfred Wegener, the originator of the scientific theory of continental drift, in his 1912 publication The Origin of Continents (Die Entstehung der Kontinente). read more