Sentences with phrase «like supercontinent»
A Pangaea - like supercontinent is forecast to form in 250 million years, but a new model predicts that superplumes rising from hotspots deep in the Earth's mantle will keep South America and Antarctica from re-merging with the other continents.
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To date all of the known pareiasaurs who roved the supercontinent of Pangea in the Permian era a quarter of a billion years ago were sprawlers whose limbs would jut out from the side of the body and then continue out or slant down from the elbow (like some modern lizards).
«What we think is happening is that the supercontinent was like an insulating blanket,» Van Avendonk said.
And they found that the amount of oxygen in the air spiked each time smaller land masses collided to form a supercontinent, like Pangea.
«The Atlantic opened the supercontinent Pangea like a zipper, separating continents and leaving animal populations isolated, so gene flow ceased and we start to see evolutionary divergence,» said Myers, a research assistant professor in the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences at SMU.