You'll Never Be Able To Travel To Any Of These 14 Continents
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These former continents helped form the world we know today.
1. Euramerica
Euramerica was actually just the union of Baltica and Laurentia and was called "The Old Red Sandstone Continent."
2. Pangaea
Pangaea formed 300 million years BCE and when it broke apart it formed the Earth as we know it today.
3. Baltica
Baltica is now a part of Northern Europe but once contained parts of Scandinavia, Poland and Northern Germany.
4. South China
South China existed on it's own floating out in the ocean and combined with North China between 215 and 176 million years ago.
5. Rodinia
Rodinia was a supercontinent whose name means homeland. It contain almost every landmass on Earth.
6. Gondwana
Pangaea essentially consisted of Laurasia and Gondwana. Gondwana contained parts of modern-day Madagascar, India, Antarctica, Australia, and Africa.
7. Pannotia
Pannotia temporary brought Baltica, Laurentia, and Gondwana after Rodinia broke apart.
8. Columbia
Columbia was given it's name by geologist John J.W. Rogers because it existed in the Columbia river region. It formed 1.8 billion years ago.
9. Laurentia
Laurentia was once a part of Kenorland and contained parts of Greenland, Scotland and North America. It also help form many other continents found here.
10. Asiamerica
11. Kenorland
Kenorland stayed intact for about 300 million years ago and split about 2.4 billions years ago. It contained most of the U.S., Canada, Western Australia and Greenland.
12. Laurasia
When Laurasia broke apart, it helped form large parts of Eurasia and North America.
13. Ur
Ur is said to be the world's first continent. It formed 3 billion years BCE and fell apart when Pangaea split apart. Today it's split between India, Madagascar and Australia.
14. Atlantica
Atlantica is now widely dispersed throughout the world. It is also one of the world's earliest continents.
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