paleocontinent

English

Alternative forms

• palaeocontinent

Etymology

From paleo- +‎ continent.

Noun

paleocontinent (plural paleocontinents)

1. A continent that existed in the geological past.
   • 2012, Henry R. Frankel, The Continental Drift Controversy, volume 1, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 42:

     There was also a northern paleocontinent, Angara-Land, spanning the present-day North Atlantic connecting North America with Europe via Greenland and including the whole of Asia north of the Tethys.

Related terms

• paleocontinental

Translations

continent that existed in the geological past

• Catalan: paleocontinent m
• German: Urkontinent m