supercontinent / ˌsu pərˈkɒn tn ənt /

⚽高中词汇超大陆超级大陆超大陆体超洲

supercontinent 的定义

n. 名词 noun

Geology.

  1. a hypothetical protocontinent of the remote geologic past that rifted apart to form the continents of today.

更多supercontinent例句

  1. So it was that about 300 million years ago, tectonic plates again squeezed together — this time to create a supercontinent called Pangea.
  2. Progress toward complexity stalled during the “boring billion” era, the roughly billion-year reign of the supercontinent Nuna-Rodinia.
  3. Eventually the supercontinent broke apart, and new mountains grew and exported nutrients again.
  4. 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.