Continental Drift

Anyone realize that scientists think there used to be one giant continent. Can someone refresh my memory of the name? Was when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

Originally posted by pizzintea
Anyone realize that scientists think there used to be one giant continent. Can someone refresh my memory of the name? Was when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

Actually it was before the time they started, about 400
million years ago, I think that was the last time the continents all banged together. If I am not mistaken, it's also not the first time they whacked together. Its kind of like dust on a soap bubble, you can see how those dust particles slide around, just on a teeny bit faster time scale. Here is a link:
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Ec&Ev_Distance_learning/Hell/geologic_time.htm

Originally posted by sonhouse
Actually it was before the time they started, about 400
million years ago, I think that was the last time the continents all banged together. If I am not mistaken, it's also not the first time they whacked together. Its kind of like dust on a soap bubble, you can see how those dust particles slide around, just on a teeny bit faster time scale. Here is a link:
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Ec&Ev_Distance_learning/Hell/geologic_time.htm

What does this mean then?
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/faq/dino-faqs/pdq207.html

Originally posted by pizzintea
Anyone realize that scientists think there used to be one giant continent. Can someone refresh my memory of the name? Was when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

Pangaea

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Pangaea

Why is it sometimes spelled pangea and pangaea?

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Originally posted by pizzintea
Why is it sometimes spelled pangea and pangaea?

Edit : Also thanks

Like I said, it happened more than once, around 400 million BC and again at 225 mil. Thats when dino's got started, the second time around. It could happen again in another couple hundred million years also, not that anyone would be around to see it!

Originally posted by pizzintea
Why is it sometimes spelled pangea and pangaea?

Edit : Also thanks

Why is colour sometimes spelt color?

The vagaries of the english language ...

Originally posted by amannion
Why is colour sometimes spelt color?

The vagaries of the english language ...

Because the Americans decided that as a revenge for us defending them from the French (napoleon) and then taxing them to pay for it, They would not only ungratefully throw us out of their country (although at the time, technically, it was our country, and yes I am aware that England didn't exactly do themselves any favours diplomatically at this point) but create a new language, by simply rewriting the rules of spelling and grammar, but give it the same name so that people would be confused and mix the spellings up. This plot is carried on today by Microsoft and its evil empire. It is not English UK and English US, but English and American.
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Originally posted by googlefudge
Because the Americans decided that as a revenge for us defending them from the French (napoleon) and then taxing them to pay for it, They would not only ungratefully throw us out of their country (although at the time, technically, it was our country, and yes I am aware that England didn't exactly do themselves any favours diplomatically at this point) b ...[text shortened]... and its evil empire. It is not English UK and English US, but English and American.
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It was a rhetorical question actually.

Originally posted by amannion
It was a rhetorical question actually.

Yes, and you will notice it wasn't an entirely serious answer.

Originally posted by pizzintea
Why is it sometimes spelled pangea and pangaea?

Edit : Also thanks

The greek word that was the root of the word "Pangaea" had three vowels at the end; aia. This is where the "aea" comes from I imagine. However people pronounce the word such that "Pangea" seems more intuitively correct.

I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea