    • n. (plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including
all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when
it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland   Sorry, no etymologies
found.      • There's that, and... are we talking about a time
in the earth's history when it was a fully formed relatively
spherical planet, and not still wobbly and, you know, gummy like
fresh cookie dough that hadn't quite congealed?      Which
reminds me of one of my favorite cartoons, a cutaway diagram of
the earth with the following labels:     Creamy Nougat Center
October 20, 2007    • I think pangea, sorry, pangaea, might have
had a very slight effect on the earth's rotation. Rock is
heavier than water, and the pangaea-side of the earth would also
have more volume than the ocean-side (since land is by
definition above sea-level). So there would be an imbalance in
the earth's crust. But the crust of the earth (including the
land and the water) is less than 3% of the earth's total mass.
So if the pangaea-side of