Pangaea broke up in several phases between 195 million and ... plate motion and mantle convection forces worked together to break apart and move large land masses. For example, Pangaea's large ...

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But life finds a way. At the time the ancestors of mammals and dinosaurs were among the survivors, repopulating all the continents after Pangea started to break up.

Even after Pangaea broke up, these signatures persisted ... Why supercontinents break up isn't entirely understood, but it is thought to involve hot mantle material rising from deep mantle regions ...

Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent proceeded to break up, forming the continents we know today. Pangea essentially turned inside out, the edges of the old continent ...