Supercontinents

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We all know that once the continents were united and that land mass was called supercontinent Pagea but what I did not know was that Pagea was not the first supercontinent but the latest. In total scientist have discovered 10 supercontinents in our world history.
Supercontinent
In geology, a supercontinent is the assembly of most or all of Earth's continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landmass.

Vaalbara
The first known supercontinent was named Vaalbara and existed between 3,636–2,803 MA

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Ur
Ur is a hypothetical supercontinent that formed in the Archean 3,100 million years ago (3.1 billion).

In a reconstruction by Rodgers, Ur is half a billion years older than Arctica and, in the early period of its existence, it was probably the only continent on Earth, and as such can be considered a supercontinent, though it was probably smaller than present-day Australia and existed between 2,803–2,408 MA
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Kenorland
Kenorland was comprised from what later became Laurentia (the core of today's North America and Greenland), Baltica (today's Scandinavia and Baltic), Western Australia and Kalaharia. It existed between 2,720–2,114 MA

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Arctica

Not generally regarded as a supercontinent, depending on definition. It existed between 2,114–1,995 MA

Atlantica

located in what are now West Africa and eastern South America. It existed between 1,991–1,124 MA
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Columbia (Nuna)

The assembly of the supercontinent was likely completed during global-scale collisional events from 2100 to 1800 million years ago.

Columbia consisted of proto-cratons that made up the cores of the continents of Laurentia, Baltica, Ukrainian Shield, Amazonian Shield, Australia, and possibly Siberia, North China, and Kalaharia as well. It existed between 1,820–1,350 MA

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Rodinia
It existed between 1,130–750 MA
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Pannotia
Pannotia was centred on the South Pole, hence its name. It existed between 633–573 MA

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Gondwana

Gondwana was formed by the accretion of several cratons. it existed between 550–175 MA

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Pangaea
Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.[2] It assembled from the earlier continental units of Gondwana, Euramerica and Siberia during the Carboniferous approximately 335 million years ago, and began to break apart about 200 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic and beginning of the Jurassic.In contrast to the present Earth and its distribution of continental mass, Pangaea was centred on the equator and surrounded by the superocean Panthalassa and the Paleo-Tethys and subsequent Tethys Oceans. Pangaea is the most recent supercontinent to have existed and the first to be reconstructed by geologists. It existed between 336–175 MA

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This gives me an idea for a topic, one that delves deep into our histories past

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Looking forward to the idea becoming a reality. I'm always interested about history :)

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I've read about Atlantica and its mysteries. It is said that there's a constant convergence into supercontinents and a divergence to subcontinents when we look at it through long periods of time.

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That’s a whole lotta shut to process man. It’s Sunday my brain isn’t working like that.

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