As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, which underpins modern-day Iraq and Saudi Arabia, was dragged behind, ...

It wasn't until 1912 that meteorologist Alfred Wegener hypothesized that Earth's continents had once been joined as a ...

Pangaea, the ancient supercontinent, holds fascinating clues about Earth’s history and its future. From shifting continents to climate changes, discover what this geological wonder can teach us ...

During this period, Earth's climate changed from hot and dry to humid ... At the start of the period, the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea continued and accelerated. Laurasia, the northern ...

Something—a bout of violent volcanic eruptions, climate change ... all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled the Equator ...

The associated changes in the climate and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved. All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that ...

In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know today were once all attached in a single landmass he called Pangaea (Greek for ... and evidence of ancient climate patterns. But Wegener could ...