How to Use supercontinent in a Sentence

supercontinent

noun

• This area used to be part of the southern edge of the Pangaea supercontinent.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
• Beside this rancid ocean, on the shores of a blasted supercontinent, the forests are gone.
  — Peter Brannen, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2020
• For one, the climate might be cooler if the supercontinent forms near a pole, writes Nature News.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
• At the dawn of the Triassic period, about 252 million years ago, the ancient supercontinent of Pangea stretched between the ends of the Earth.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2022
• The study said that very few ankylosaurs had been found from southern Gondwana -- the lower part of the ancient supercontinent Pangea.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 Dec. 2021
• Then, near the end of the Ordovician, a sweeping climate shift left the supercontinent covered with glaciers.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2021
• The story of the Himalaya begins some 200 million years ago, as the supercontinent of Pangea began to split into pieces.
  — Science, 8 Dec. 2020
• Roughly 1 billion years ago, the Amazon and the Baltics were neighbors on the supercontinent Rodinia.
  — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2023
• This supercontinent was shaped like a horseshoe and in the middle of it was the Paleo-Tethys Ocean where these animals were thought to live, according to Kear.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 19 June 2024
• According to researchers, the Atlas Mountains were formed during the breakup of the Pangea supercontinent.
  — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• But during the middle Triassic Period, the area was a deep sea shelf off the northern coast of the supercontinent Pangea and a haven for marine reptiles.
  — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• What's not certain is where that supercontinent will be.
  — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2012
• Even great swaths of the wet Gondwana rainforests, the only living link to that primordial supercontinent, have burned.
  — Tishani Doshi, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
• These species seem to have gone their separate ways during the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, a process that started nearly 200 million years ago.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2024
• The project of Russia as a self-reliant supercontinent, bestride Europe and Asia, has already failed.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
• Australian researchers said the colorful gems of the Argyle mine, which produced more than 90 percent of the world’s pink stones, may have erupted when a supercontinent split.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Ankylosaur fossils from the northern portion of what used to make up the supercontinent Pangea have been well-researched, per New Scientist.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
• There are ancient lava flows from when the Rodinia supercontinent began to rip apart.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
• Modern-day Morocco is located where the southern supercontinent Gondwana would have been at the time the stegosaur was alive.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
• Some 85 million years ago, the islands that would become New Zealand split off from the rest of the supercontinent of Gondwana and evolved in isolation with just a few native mammal species.
  — Mara Johnson-Groh, Popular Science, 26 May 2020
• Back then, flowers had not yet developed, and the world’s land was clumped together in a supercontinent called Pangaea.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2018
• The astonishing find caused researchers to question how the reptiles moved from one side of Earth, dominated by a supercontinent called Pangea at the time, to the other.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 June 2024
• Those three far-apart regions were all next to one another before 175 million years ago, when the supercontinent known as Pangaea broke up.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• At the end of the Triassic Period, just over 200 million years ago, the supercontinent Pangaea was breaking apart.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2021
• Become a Subscriber The possibility of a future supercontinent isn’t the shocking part of the new study.
  — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2023
• And bones found in areas that would have been far from the equator millions of years ago—such as Antarctica and Australia, which were part of the Gondwana supercontinent—are even more uncommon.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
• The dramatic break up of an ancient supercontinent could be behind the planet’s cache of rare pink diamonds.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
• Earth’s land mass was then mostly a single Pangea supercontinent.
  — Jeanne Timmons, New York Times, 22 May 2023
• For millions of years, an extremely dry climate had extended across the supercontinent of Pangaea, until an episode of massive volcanism made the planet hotter and much more humid.
  — Leigh Phillips, The Atlantic, 9 July 2024
• The rocks containing these zircons were probably deposited by a moving glacier as the supercontinent Rodinia (which preceded the more famous Pangaea) was breaking apart.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024