The breakup of the former Pangea supercontinent culminated in the modern drifting
continents. Increased rifting caused the establishment of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle …

During its life span from mid-Carboniferous (320 Ma) merger to mid-Jurassic (160 Ma) initial
breakup, Pangea comprised two contrasting sedimentary provinces:(1) an emergent …

Plate tectonic reconstructions for the Cretaceous have assumed that the major continental
blocks—Eurasia, Greenland, North America, South America, Africa, India, Australia, and …

The supercontinent Pangea completes its assembly and moves north during the Permian.
The 47-million-year-long period begins with a great ice age and ends with the Earth's …

The earth was a very different place some 65 to 70 million years ago, toward the close of the
Cretaceous period. The Atlantic Ocean was forming as the New and Old World continents …

The Cretaceous Period extended from 145 Ma to 65 Ma ago, and is believed to have
differed from our present world in several major respects. First, the period has been …

The end-Paleozoic Pangea appears to have contained three continents that had grown in
the Precambrian and remained intact until Mesozoic rifting: Ur, formed at~ 3 Ga and …

The supercontinent Pangaea dominated all aspects of Earth history for nearly 150 million
years. The events in both western and eastern Pangaea document complex Wilson cycles …

Several major episodes of Tertiary explosive volcanism coincided with sharply lowered
temperature as inferred from oxygen-isotope composition of foraminiferal tests in deep-sea …