Pannotia
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) + νότος (nótos, “south”).
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[edit]Pannotia
- (geology) A supercontinent which formed on Earth approximately 600 million years ago.
- 2007, Ted Nield, Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet, page 207:
- When Pannotia subsequently split, about 550 million years ago, the interior oceans created by this event, such as lapetus, Tuzo Wilson's so-called 'proto-Atlantic' separating present-day North America from Western Europe, were subsequently destroyed as the next supercontinent (Pangaea) was created.