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supercontinent

supercontinent noun: a very large continent that split into smaller ones in the Earth’s geologic past.

Noun

supercontinent (plural supercontinents)

  1. A very large continent that split into smaller ones in the Earth’s geologic past.
    • For a supercontinent to form requires a significant volume of continental crustal fragments that survive recycling into the mantle.2001, Kent C. Condie, Mantle Plumes and Their Record in Earth History, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 237
    • Some 200 million years ago, the rocks that became the Palisades cliffs just across the Hudson River from Manhattan formed during volcanic activity that helped rip apart the ancient supercontinent Pangea.2022 February 3, Lucas Joel, “Dissolving in Toxic Oceans: How an Ancient Extinction Happened”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2022
  2. A modern landmass composed of multiple continents, i.e. Afro-Eurasia or the Americas.

supercontinent meaning in Thai

supercontinent in Thai

very large continent in the Earth's past
มหาทวีป
one of modern landmasses
มหาทวีป

Examples of supercontinent in a sentence

  • The supercontinent Rodinia assembled during the Stenian.
  • First, the supercontinent Pangea led to a broad land-monsoon area (i.e., megamonsoon), but with modest monsoonal precipitation.
  • One group, the peripatopsids, are found exclusively on the continents which once formed the southern supercontinent Gondwana.

All 10 example sentences with supercontinent

Forms of supercontinent

pluralsupercontinents

Origin of supercontinent

From super- + continent.

Words formed from supercontinent

Phrases with supercontinent

Questions about supercontinent

What does supercontinent mean?
Supercontinent means a very large continent that split into smaller ones in the Earth’s geologic past.
What is supercontinent in Thai?
Supercontinent in Thai is มหาทวีป. See Supercontinent meaning in Thai.
What part of speech is supercontinent?
Supercontinent is a noun.
What is the plural of supercontinent?
The plural of supercontinent is supercontinents.

Words near supercontinent in the dictionary

  1. supercontacting
  2. supercontext
  3. supercontexts
  4. supercontig
  5. supercontigs
  6. supercontinent
  7. supercontinent cycle
  8. supercontinent cycles
  9. supercontinental
  10. supercontinents
  11. supercontinua

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