by greenpea on November 8th, 2008

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Who named pangea

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by anguilla on November 8th, 2008
According to an article in Wikipedia:

The name was first used by the German originator of the continental drift theory, Alfred Wegener, in the 1920 edition of his book The Origin of Continents and Oceans (Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane), in which a postulated supercontinent Pangaea played a key role.

NOTE that's there's an extra "a" in the name: Pangaea.
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by LynfromNM on November 8th, 2008
"Pangaea" comes from Greek roots meaning "all earth". The term was first used in print by Alfred Wegener in his work "Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane" in 1920, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary.
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by king of ellipses on November 8th, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea
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- Note to "king of ellipses." In the Answerbag guidelines, it suggests that you give a bit of info in addition to a URL, just in case the URL fails to work. That way, the answer you intended gets through to the questioner regardless.
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  by anguilla on November 8th, 2008
- so, it's okay that someone asks a question so basic that googling it takes about 3 seconds? Hmmm, the bandwidth I saved the site by posting less might make up for the idiocy of some questions. I'll take your rap on the knuckles and weep quietly to myself. Also, if the URL has the word wikipedia in it, it should be fairly obviouc that you're about to get a definition, unless you've been under a rock for the last 5 years
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by Brian on November 8th, 2008
That egocentric airhead, Pangea Hilton. ;)
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