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protocontinent
[ proh-toh-kon-tn-uhnt ]
noun
Geology.
- an actual or hypothetical landmass that might later be enlarged into a major continent or broken up into smaller ones.
protocontinent
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- A landmass that existed at some point in the past. Protocontinents that are thought to have comprised some or all of the present-day continents in a single landmass are also known as supercontinents .
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Geologists have long known that 250 million years ago the continents were bunched together in a massive protocontinent, dubbed Pangea.
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