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Cimmeria was an ancient microcontinent that existed about 200 million years ago. It rifted north from Gondwana during the Late Carboniferous and collided against Laurasia during the Late Triassic. Cimmeria consisted parts of Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan Tibet, Indochina and Malaya. Cimmeria was on the Cimmerian Plate, an ancient tectonic plate that was subducting under Laurasia. Animated, colour-coded map showing the various continents. ...
In geology, a rift is a place where the Earths lithosphere is expanding. ...
Gondwanaland redirects here. ...
The Pennsylvanian is an epoch of the Carboniferous period lasting from roughly 325 Ma to 299 Ma (million years ago). ...
Laurasia was a supercontinent that most recently existed as a part of the split of the Pangaean supercontinent in the late Mesozoic era. ...
The Late Triassic (also known as Upper Triassic, or Keuper) is the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic period. ...
Tibet (older spelling Thibet; Tibetan: à½à½¼à½à¼; Wylie: Bod; Lhasa dialect IPA: [; Simplified and Traditional Chinese: 西è, Hanyu Pinyin: XÄ«zà ng; also referred to as èåº (Simplified Chinese), èå (Traditional Chinese), Zà ngqÅ« (Hanyu Pinyin), see Name section below) is a plateau region in Central Asia and the indigenous home to the Tibetan people. ...
Indochina 1886 Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia. ...
Map of Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia (Malay: Semenanjung Malaysia) is the part of Malaysia which lies on the Malay Peninsula, and shares a land border with Thailand in the north. ...
The Cimmerian plate is an ancient tectonic plate that comprises parts of present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and Tibet. ...
The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century. ...
The Juan de Fuca plate sinks below the North America plate at the Cascadia subduction zone. ...
Laurasia was a supercontinent that most recently existed as a part of the split of the Pangaean supercontinent in the late Mesozoic era. ...
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| | Geological supercontinents Gondwana · Laurasia · Pangaea · Pannotia · Proto-Gondwana · Proto-Laurasia · Rodinia · Columbia · Kenorland · Ur · Vaalbara Animated, colour-coded map showing the various continents. ...
Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2759x1404, 54 KB) World map: Africa-Eurasia (location) File links The following pages link to this file: Australia Africa Africa-Eurasia Europe North America Template:Continent ...
Africa-Eurasia The supercontinent of Africa-Eurasia, or Afro-Eurasia, is the worlds largest land mass and contains around 85% of the human population. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2759x1404, 54 KB) Extracted from CIA World Factbook PDF world map, then rasterized and colored. ...
World map showing the Americas CIA political map of the Americas The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World consisting of the continents of North America[1] and South America with their associated islands and regions. ...
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Eurasia African-Eurasian aspect of Earth Eurasia is the Earths largest landmass covering about 21215121321km² compared with the Americas (approximately 42,000,000 km²), Africa (approximately 30,000,000 km²), and Antarctica (approximately 13,000,000 km²). Eurasia comprises the traditional continents of Europe and Asia. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2759x1404, 54 KB)Oceanias place in the world. ...
World map exhibiting a common interpretation of Oceania; other interpretations may vary. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 Ã 407 pixel Image in higher resolution (2759 Ã 1404 pixel, file size: 55 KB, MIME type: image/png) this is a boring map of africa!!!!!!!!!!!! World map depicting Africa; map adapted from PDF world map at CIA World Fact Book File...
A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 Ã 407 pixelsFull resolution (2759 Ã 1404 pixel, file size: 55 KB, MIME type: image/png) Antarctica is extremely cold, particularly in the winter where the temperature can reach -70 degrees. ...
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World map showing the location of Asia. ...
Download high resolution version (2759x1404, 38 KB) This country locator map was created by Vardion and is released into the public domain. ...
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World map showing the location of Europe. ...
Download high resolution version (2759x1404, 73 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
File links The following pages link to this file: South America User talk:Morwen Category:Continent locator maps Categories: Continent locator maps | GFDL images ...
South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
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In geology, a supercontinent is a land mass comprising more than one continental core, or craton. ...
Gondwanaland redirects here. ...
Laurasia was a supercontinent that most recently existed as a part of the split of the Pangaean supercontinent in the late Mesozoic era. ...
For other uses, see Pangaea (disambiguation). ...
Pannotia is the name given to a hypothetical supercontinent that existed from about 600 to about 540 mya. ...
Proto-Gondwana (first Gondwana), also known as Proto-Gondwanaland was a Middle - Late Proterozoic. ...
Proto-Laurasia (first Laurasia) was an ancient supercontinent. ...
Depiction of Rodinia at time of initial breakup. ...
Kenorland was one of the earliest supercontinents found on Earth. ...
Ur is the name of the first known continent that probably formed 3 billion years ago in the early Archean Eon. ...
The Earths first supercontinent thought to have existed is Vaalbara. ...
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| | Historical continents Arctica · Asiamerica · Atlantica · Avalonia · Baltica · Cimmeria · Congo craton · Euramerica · Kalahari Desert · Kazakhstania · Laurentia · Siberia · South China · Ur Animated, colour-coded map showing the various continents. ...
Arctica was an ancient continent approximately 2. ...
Asiamerica was a large island formed from the Laurasian landmass and separated by shallow continental seas from Eurasia to the West and eastern North America to the East. ...
Atlantica was an ancient continent. ...
Avalonia was a paleomicrocontinent also known as a Terrane. ...
Baltica (green) Baltica is a Late Proterozoic-Early Palaeozoic continent that now includes the East European craton of northwestern Eurasia. ...
The Congo craton, covered by the Palaeozoic-to-recent Congo basin, is an ancient Precambrian craton that with four others (the Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe, Tazania, and West African cratons) makes up the modern continent of Africa. ...
Euramerica (also known as Laurussia) was a minor supercontinent created in the Devonian by the collision of Laurentia and Baltica (Scandian Orogeny). ...
The Kalahari Desert is a large arid to semi-arid sandy area in southern Kgalagadi Africa extending 900,000 km² (562,500 sq. ...
Kazakhstania, also known as the Kazakhstan Block, is a small continental region in the interior of Asia. ...
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Siberia (Sometimes called Angara) is the craton located in the heart of the region of Siberia. ...
South China continent, also known as South China craton (or the South Chinese craton) was an ancient continent (craton) that contained todays South and Southeast China (named after), Indochina, and parts of Southeast Asia (ie. ...
Ur is the name of the first known continent that probably formed 3 billion years ago in the early Archean Eon. ...
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| | Submerged continents Kerguelen Plateau · Zealandia Animated, colour-coded map showing the various continents. ...
The Kerguelen Plateau is an underwater volcanic ridge—the largest in the Indian Ocean, and one of the largest in the world. ...
Topography of Zealandia. ...
| Mythical and theorised continents Atlantis · Lemuria · Mu · Terra Australis A mythical place is a place that does not really exist but is accepted folklore or speculation that it might exist or might have existed in earlier times but its actual location is now lost. ...
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Lemuria is the name of a hypothetical lost land variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. ...
Underwater structures controversially identified as remnants of Mu, near Yonaguni, Japan Mu is the name of a lost land, or hypothetical vanished continent, that was once located in the Pacific Ocean but is now (like Atlantis and Lemuria, with which it is sometimes identified) believed to have sunk beneath the...
Terra Australis is the large continent on the bottom of the map Terra Australis (also: Terra Australis Incognita, Latin for the unknown land of the South) was an imaginary continent, appearing on European maps from the 15th to the 18th century. ...
| Possible future continents Pangaea Ultima · Amasia Pangaea Ultima (also Neopangaea, or Pangaea II) is a possible future supercontinent configuration, which, consistent with the supercontinent cycle, may occur within the next 250 million years. ...
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