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The Stac Fada Member — part of the supercontinent Rodinia 1 billion years ago — preserves what Earth's surface environments were like before and after the impact, study co-author Tony Prave, an emeritus professor of geoscience at the University of St Andrews, told Live Science.
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Patrick Pester, Space.com, 12 May 2025
During that time, landmasses consolidated into a supercontinent called Rodinia and then broke apart again.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
By around 270 million years ago, that action was done, and all the world’s landmasses had merged into a second single supercontinent, Pangaea.
—Alexandra Witze, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2025
This wide distribution suggests that their roots were in the supercontinent Gondwana, before the landmasses split apart and carried madtsoiids to new evolutionary frontiers.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Patrick Pester, Space.com, 12 May 2025
During that time, landmasses consolidated into a supercontinent called Rodinia and then broke apart again.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
By around 270 million years ago, that action was done, and all the world’s landmasses had merged into a second single supercontinent, Pangaea.
—Alexandra Witze, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2025
This wide distribution suggests that their roots were in the supercontinent Gondwana, before the landmasses split apart and carried madtsoiids to new evolutionary frontiers.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercontinent
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The influx of top African talents such as Kanu, Kolo Toure, Lauren and Emmanuel Adebayor helped Arsenal’s presence grow on that particular continent around the turn of the century.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
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The hardware was assembled on two different continents before being integrated in India to complete the satellite.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
30 July 2025
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If air pollution in India were to be reduced, heat and humidity could actually increase on the subcontinent, as currently the particulate matter is reflecting some of the sun’s rays into space.—
Vitas Carosella,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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There's rumored to be a second one among Greenland's approximately 6,500 cars for an island that's about half the size of the Indian subcontinent and has fewer than 60 miles of road and just three traffic lights.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
6 July 2025
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“Supercontinent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercontinent. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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