Pangäa

• Pangaea

From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) +‎ γαῖα (gaîa, “earth, land”), coined by German climatologist and geophysicist Alfred Wegener in 1915.

• IPA^(key): [panˈɡɛːa]

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Pangäa f (genitive Pangäas or Pangäa)

1. (geology) Pangaea (a former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana)

   Synonym: Urkontinent

   • 1920 [1915], Alfred Wegener, chapter 6, in Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane‎^[1], 2nd edition, Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn:

     Schon die Pangäa der Karbonzeit hatte so einen Vorderrand (Amerika), der sich wegen des Widerstandes des zähen Simas in Falten legte (Präkordilleren), und einen Hinterrand (Asien), von dem sich Randketten und Brocken ablösten und als Inselgruppen im Sima des Pazifik stecken blieben.

     Even the Pangaea of ​​the Carboniferous period had a leading edge (America), which folded due to the resistance of the tough sima (precordillera), and a trailing edge (Asia), from which marginal chains and chunks detached and became stuck as island groups in the sima of the Pacific.

• Pangaea on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Pangäa” in Duden online