What is the name of the oldest known super coninent?

Question

What is the name of the oldest known super coninent?

Answer 1

Didn't know there was but one, but see this article from:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea

Pangaea, Pangæa or Pangea (IPA: /pænˈdʒiːə/[1], from παν, pan, meaning entire, and Γαῖα, Gaea, meaning Earth in Ancient Greek) was the supercontinent that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras about 250 million years ago, before each of the component continents were separated into their current configuration [2].

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.

Answer 2

When all the continents were supposedly together, the supercontinent was referred to as Pangea. I think, though, that there were some reminisces of supercontinents prior to that, the earliest of which I believe is called "Vaalbara". Oh, and for all you Pangea fans, I believe that Pangea was the most recent supercontinent.

Here's some more information to help you out:

Information on Pangea- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangea

Backwords chronological list of supercontinents-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sup...

Information on Vaalbara:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaalbara

Hope I helped :)

Answer 3

Well the only supercontinent to my knowledge, is Pangea.  Considering it was the whole in which all of us were once connected to-I believe that would make it the oldest as well.

Answer 4

It's been given the name Pangaea.

Answer 5

Gondwana, or Gondwanaland is the name given to

the supercontinent in the southern hemisphere, when, it is believed, all of today's southern hemisphere's land masses were joined together between 200 and 500 million years ago.

It began to break up around 167 million years ago