supercontinent 的定义
Geology.
- a hypothetical protocontinent of the remote geologic past that rifted apart to form the continents of today.
更多supercontinent例句
- So it was that about 300 million years ago, tectonic plates again squeezed together — this time to create a supercontinent called Pangea.
- Progress toward complexity stalled during the “boring billion” era, the roughly billion-year reign of the supercontinent Nuna-Rodinia.
- Eventually the supercontinent broke apart, and new mountains grew and exported nutrients again.
- Science aside, it’s fascinating to travel so far into the past, when just three oceans—the Mirovoi Ocean, Mozambique Ocean, and Mawson Sea—lapped at the shores of supercontinent Rodinia.