Pangaea

Definition: Pangaea

Pangaea

Noun

1. (plate tectonic theory) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.

Specialty Definitions: Pangaea

Domain	Definitions
Geological	The supercontinent which formed at the end of the Paleozoic Era and began breaking up about 200 million years ago to form today's continents. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Pangaea

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pangaea (from the Greek for, "all lands") is the name Alfred Wegener used to refer to the supercontinent which existed during the Mesozoic period, before the process of plate tectonics separated the component continents. Pangaea broke up about 200 million years ago. When the continents first came together to form Pangaea, mountains were formed; some of these ranges still exist; such as the Appalachians and the Urals. The vast ocean surrounding Pangaea was Panthalassa.

The mantle under its former location is still hot and trying to rise upward. As a result, Africa sits several tens of meters higher than the other continents.

Pangaea broke into two parts:

Gondwana
Laurasia

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Synonym: Pangaea

Synonym: Pangea (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Pangaea

Domain	Title
Books	Pangaea (The Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series) (reference) Pangaean Chronicles Book 1 : Pangaea (reference) The Heart's Pangaea (Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, No 10) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Pangaea (reference) Pangaea [LIVE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Usage Frequency: Pangaea

"Pangaea" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Pangaea" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	91.67%	11	106,044
Noun (singular)	8.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pangaea

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
pangaea	162
breaking pangaea	19
map pangaea	12
breaking lyrics pangaea	9
pangaea theory	8
pangaea picture	8
evidence pangaea	6
nyc pangaea	5
continent pangaea	4
pangaea restaurant	4
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Modern Translations: Pangaea

Language		Translations for "pangaea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		angaeapay.(various references)
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Anagrams: Pangaea

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: apanage.
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-g-n-p"
	-1 letter: agapae.
	-2 letters: agape, apnea, paean, pagan, panga.
	-3 letters: anga, gaen, gane, gape, nape, neap, page, pane, pang, peag, pean.
	-4 letters: aga, age, ana, ane, ape, eng, gae, gan, gap, gen, nae, nag, nap, pan, pea, peg, pen.
	-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, an, en, na, ne, pa, pe.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-e-g-n-p"
	+1 letter: apanages, appanage.
	+2 letters: appanages.
	+3 letters: asparagine, paramagnet, phalangeal.
	+4 letters: asparagines, paramagnets.
	+5 letters: agapanthuses, paralanguage, paramagnetic, permanganate.
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