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How Pangaea Became 7 Separate Continents
Before Pangaea became a supercontinent, it existed as different continents. Three large continental plates came together to ...
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Before Pangea, there was another supercontinent called Gondwana. This eventually collided with other big continents to form Pangea. As Gondwana broke up and disintegrated, a small continent was ...
But life finds a way. At the time the ancestors of mammals and dinosaurs were among the survivors, repopulating all the continents after Pangea started to break up.
Pangea essentially turned inside out, the edges of the old continent becoming the collision ... the rate of collision between India and Tibet before the GPS measurements were made was the rate ...