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Pangaea

About this illustration

From This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics, published by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Provider
U.S. Geological Survey
Date created
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See this illustration in context

  • Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony: First part of a North Carolina history text for secondary students, covering the land, American Indians before contact with Europeans, Spanish exploration, the Roanoke colony, and the Columbian Exchange. (Page 1.2)

In the classroom

  • See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
Map of the contentents through geologic time

Sequence of five globes show positions of the continents and oceans in Permian (225 million years ago), Triassic (200 million years ago), Jurassic (135 million years ago), Cretaceous (65 million years ago), and present periods, as the single landmass of Pangaea broke up and the continents drifted apart.