A continent is a large geographical region defined by the continental shelves and the cultures on the continent.[1] In the modern day, there are seven continents. However, there have been more continents throughout history. Vaalbara was the first supercontinent.[2] Europe is the newest continent.[3] Geologists have predicted that certain continents will appear, these being Pangaea Proxima, Novopangaea, Aurica, and Amasia.

List of Continents

Name Era Time before present Image Reference
Vaalbara Eoarchean 3.6-2.7 Ga [2]
Ur Paleoarchean 3.1 Ga [4]
Kenorland Neoarchean 2.7 Ga [5]
Arctica Neoarchean 2.565 Ga [6]
Columbia Paleoproterozoic 2.1-1.5 Ga [7]
Atlantica Paleoproterozoic 2.0 Ga [8]
Nena Paleoproterozoic 1.9 Ga [9]
Baltica Paleoproterozoic 1.8 Ga [10]
Rodinia Neoproterozoic 1100-633 Ma [11]
Avalonia Neoproterozoic 750 Ma [12]
Pannotia Neoproterozoic 500-600 Ma [13]
Pampia Neoproterozoic 555-515 Ma [11]
Gondwana Neoproterozoic 550 Ma [14]
Cimmeria Neoproterozoic 550 Ma [15]
Laurasia Neoproterozoic 550 Ma [16]
Cuyania Paleozoic ~420-390 Ma [17]
Chilenia Paleozoic ~420-390 Ma [18]
Pangaea Paleozoic 335 Ma [16]
Africa Paleozoic 300 Ma [19]
South America Mesozoic 225 Ma [20]
North America Mesozoic 200 Ma [21]
Mauritia Mesozoic 70-60 Ma [22]
Asia Mesozoic 66 Ma [23]
Australia Cenozoic 10 Ma [24]
Europe Cenozoic 5 Ma [25]
Pangaea Proxima ~250 myf [3]
Novopangaea ~250 myf [26]
Aurica ~250 myf [26]
Amasia ~250 myf [26]

References

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  2. 1 2 Zegers, T. E.; de Wit, M. J.; White, S. H. (1998). "Vaalbara, Earth's oldest assembled continent? A combined. structural, geochronological, and palaeomagnetic test" (PDF). Terra Nova. 10(5): 250–259.
  3. 1 2 Willams, Caroline; Nield, Ted (2007). "Earth's next supercontinent". New Scientist. 196 (2626): 36–40. doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(07)62661-X.
  4. ↑ Rogers & Santosh 2003, Rodinia, pp. 363–364
  5. ↑ Pesonen, L. J.; Elming, S.-Å.; Mertanen, S.; Pisarevsky, S.; D’Agrella-Filho, M. S.; Meert, J. G.; Schmidt, P. W.; Abrahamsen, N.; Bylund, G. (2003). "Palaeomagnetic configuration of continents during the Proterozoic". Tectonophysics. 375 (1–4): 289–324
  6. ↑ Vernikovsky, V. A.; Dobretsov, N. L. (2015). "Geodynamic evolution of the Arctic Ocean and modern problems in geological studies of the Arctic region". Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 85 (3): 206–212.
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  11. 1 2 Gaucher, Claudio; Bossi, Jorge; Blanco, Gonzalo (2009). "Palaeogeography". Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Tectonics, Global Change and Evolution: A Focus on South Western Gondwana. Developments in Precambrian Geology. 16. pp. 131–41. doi:10.1016/S0166-2635(09)01609-0. ISBN 978-0-444-53249-7.
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  14. ↑ Bradley, D.C. (2011). "Secular Trends in the Geologic Record and the Supercontinent Cycle". Earth-Science Reviews. 108 (1–2): 16–33. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.715.6618. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.05.003.
  15. ↑ Buchs, D. M.; Bagheri, S.; Martin, L.; Hermann, J.; Arculus, R. (2013). "Paleozoic to Triassic ocean opening and closure preserved in Central Iran: Constraints from the geochemistry of meta-igneous rocks of the Anarak area". Lithos. 172: 267–287.
  16. 1 2 Blakey 2003, Assembly of Western Pangaea: Carboniferous–Permian, pp. 453–454; Assembly of Eastern Pangaea: Late Permian–Jurassic, p. 454; Fig. 10, p. 454
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  21. ↑ "North America - Tectonic evolution". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2015-05-03. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  22. ↑ Torsvik, Trond H.; Amundsen, Hans; Hartz, Ebbe H.; Corfu, Fernando; Kusznir, Nick; Gaina, Carmen; Doubrovine, Pavel V.; Steinberger, Bernhard; Ashwal, Lewis D.; Jamtveit, Bjørn (24 February 2013). "A Precambrian microcontinent in the Indian Ocean" (PDF). Nature Geoscience. 6 (3): 223–227. doi:10.1038/ngeo1736. hdl:10852/62002. ISSN 1752-0894. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
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  24. ↑ "Australia - Geologic history". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2015-05-02. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  25. ↑ "Europe - Geologic history". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2014-12-12. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
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