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1. Enchanted Learning: Alfred Wegener and Pangaea

   Learn about Wegener, the scientist who first proposed the theory of continental drift and named the proposed supercontinent, Pangea.

   http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/Pangaea.shtml

   
   

2. Formation of Pangea

   Read about Pangea, the supercontinent thought to exist a long time ago.

   http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Permian/pangea.html

   
   

3. Paleomap Project: The Breakup of Pangea

   Scroll your mouse over the map to see a theory about how Pangea broke into today's seven continents.

   http://www.scotese.com/pangeanim.htm

   
   

4. Pangea to the Present: A History of the Earth's Plates

   Learn about how Earth's plates may have shifted land from the suprecontinent Pangea to their present positions.

   http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Pangea/Pangea1.html

   
   

5. Triassic: Pangea

   See a map that shows how the world and the supercontinent of Pangea may have looked in the early Triassic Period.

   http://www.scotese.com/newpage8.htm

   
   

6. USGS: Pangea Breaks Up

   See an animation of the breakup of Pangea, from the early Mesozoic Era to the present.

   http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/parks/pltec/pangea.html

   
   

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