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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Pangaea

"supercontinent of the late Paleozoic era," 1924, from Greek pan- "all" (see pan-) + gaia "earth" (see gaia). First attested in German, 1920, in Alfred Wegener's "Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane" (not found in 1914 first edition, according to OED).

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Pangaea (disambiguation)

Pangaea was a supercontinent of ancient Earth.

Pangaea or Pangea may also refer to:

  • Pangaea Ultima, possible future global supercontinent
  • Pangea (cable system), a submarine telecommunications cable system connecting the Netherlands and Denmark to the UK
  • Pangea Software, a software company focusing on iOS and Macintosh games
  • Pangea.org, a non-profit social-support organisation in Spain
  • Pangea Recordings, a record label
  • Pangaea (mountain), a mountain in Greek mythology, involved in the war between the Titans and the Greek gods
  • Pangaea (album), a 1975 album by Miles Davis
  • Pangea Day
  • PangaeaPanga, a Super Mario World speedrunner and hacker
  • Pangaea (band), an Australian punk/metal band
  • PANGAEA (data library), a publisher and archive for data from earth system research
Pangaea (mountain)

Pangaea in Greek mythology refers to the mountain on which the ancient Greek gods fought the Titans.

Category:Locations in Greek mythology

Pangaea (album)

Pangaea is a double album recorded by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. It was released in 1976 in Japan. Both Pangaea and its predecessor Agharta (1975) were recorded on February 1, in Osaka, Japan, at the Festival Hall. The Agharta concert took place during an afternoon matinee, whereas Pangaea was recorded in the evening.

Pangaea

Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from earlier continental units approximately 300 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago. In contrast to the present Earth and its distribution of continental mass, much of Pangaea was in the southern hemisphere and surrounded by a super ocean, Panthalassa. Pangaea was the last supercontinent to have existed and the first to be reconstructed by geologists.

Pangaea (band)

Pangaea is a punk and metal band from Brisbane.

PANGAEA (data library)

PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science is a digital data library and a data publisher for earth system science. Data can be georeferenced in time (date/time or geological age) and space (latitude, longitude, depth/height).

Scientific data are archived with related metainformation in a relational database ( Sybase) through an editorial system. Data are in Open Access and are distributed through web services in standard formats on the Internet through various search engines and portals. Data set descriptions (metadata) are conform to the ISO 19115 standard and are served in various further formats (e.g. Directory Interchange Format, Dublin Core). They include a bibliographic citation and are persistently identified using Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). Identifier provision and long-term availability of data sets via library catalogs is ensured through a cooperation with the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). Retrieval of data sets is provided through a full text search engine (based on Apache Lucene / panFMP). For efficient data compilations a data warehouse is operated. Data descriptions are available through various protocols ( OAI-PMH, Web Catalog Service).

PANGAEA is hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven and the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), Bremen in Germany. The system is used by various international research projects from public funding as data repository and by the World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE) as long-term archive. The system was initially developed since 1987 and is operational on the Internet since 1995.

The MediaWiki software is used to operate a wiki as PANGAEA manual and reference.

PANGAEA is also listed in re3data.org.

Pangaea (sculpture)

Pangaea is a public art work by artist Michaela Mahady, located on the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. The mixed media work incorporates concrete, brick, stone, steel, ceramic tile and colored leaded glass into a pavilion crowned with images of technology. Pangaea represents the global nature of today's world. The artwork is located in a courtyard behind the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business and was funded by the Wisconsin Arts Board's Percent for Art program.

Usage examples of "pangaea".

Earth, unfamiliar at first, until Pangaea splits into Laurasia and Gondwanaland, then these into smaller plates, some of them recognizably rough outlines of the modern continents.

Or it may be that tectonic forces were still roiling the early crust, and an early protocontinental craton, like Pangaea on Earth, had risen in the southern hemisphere and then hardened into place, as the smaller planet cooled faster than Earth, without any subsequent tectonic-plate breakup and drift.

Or it may be that tectonic forces were still roiling the early crust, and an early proto-continental craton, like Pangaea on Earth, had risen in the southern hemisphere and then hardened into place, as the smaller planet cooled faster than Earth, without any subsequent tectonic plate break-up and drift.

Although textbooks give confident-looking representations of ancient landmasses with names like Laurasia, Gondwana, Rodinia, and Pangaea, these are sometimes based on conclusions that don’t altogether hold up.

Now the Earth was composed of only two units: a single enormous continent, called Pangaea, that stretched virtually from pole to pole with Africa at its center, and a single ocean, called Panthalassa, that covered the rest of the globe.

Pangaea teemed and Panthalassa was even more diverse, supporting an amazing array of fish, shellfish, corals, and marine reptiles.