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I am not sure about the spelling but My niece has asked me a question about a continent in the dinosaur days named pangea... Her teacher asked her why this continent was named pangea...
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Pan = all; gaea = earth. Pangaea was a continent containing most of the current continental land masses. The current continents are fragments torn off by continental drift.

Richard Barrans


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