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    Columbia, also known as Nuna or Hudsonland, is a hypothetical ancient supercontinents. It was first proposed by John J.W. Rogers and M. Santosh in 2002...
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    In geology, a supercontinent is the assembly of most or all of Earth's continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landmass. However, some geologists...
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  • subdivision of the town of Washington Columbia (supercontinent), a prehistoric supercontinent 327 Columbia, an asteroid Columbia (BioShock), a city in the video...
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  • the supercontinent. Rodinia formed at c. 1.23 Ga by accretion and collision of fragments produced by breakup of an older supercontinent, Columbia, assembled...
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    Pangaea or Pangea (/pænˈdʒiː.ə/) was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from the earlier continental...
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    the core of Columbia, another supercontinent concept with several proposed configurations. The first concept of the Nena supercontinent originated with...
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    Vaalbara today Vaalbara is a hypothetical Archean supercontinent consisting of the Kaapvaal Craton (now in eastern South Africa) and the Pilbara Craton...
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    The supercontinent cycle is the quasi-periodic aggregation and dispersal of Earth's continental crust. There are varying opinions as to whether the amount...
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    List of paleocontinents (category Supercontinents)
    list includes cratons, supercratons, microcontinents, continents and supercontinents. For the Archean to Paleoproterozoic cores of most of the continents...
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    collision event with the Columbia Supercontinent 1.85 billion years ago. The collision event with the Columbia Supercontinent also replaced lithosphere...
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    Laurasia (category Former supercontinents)
    more northern of two large landmasses that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent from around 335 to 175 million years ago (Mya), the other being Gondwana...
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    the continental shelf. South America broke off from the west of the supercontinent Gondwana around 135 million years ago, forming its own continent. Around...
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    and the assembly phase of Gondwana. Reconstruction of Columbia supercontinent Godwana supercontinent Geology of India Mishra, D.C.; Kumar, M. Ravi. Proterozoic...
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  • redirect targets Supercontinent – Landmass comprising more than one continental core, or craton Columbia (supercontinent) – Ancient supercontinent of approximately...
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    events of this era are the breakup of the Columbia supercontinent, the formation of the Rodinia supercontinent, and the evolution of sexual reproduction...
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    China block in the Neoproterozic, both of them were part of the Columbia supercontinent. Recent studies have proposed that the South China Block is possibly...
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    Rodinia formed after the breakup of the supercontinent Columbia and prior to the assemblage of the supercontinent Gondwana (~500 Ma). The defining orogenic...
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  • an amphibolite facies c. 1,800 Ma – Statherian Period starts. Supercontinent Columbia forms, one of whose fragments being Nena. Oldest ergs develop on...
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    swarms, and position of the Rio de la Plata Craton within the Columbia supercontinent". Lithos. 174: 157–174. Bibcode:2013Litho.174..157T. doi:10.1016/j...
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  • the supercontinent cycle, where the continents aggregate and then drift apart. The Boring Billion saw the evolution of two supercontinents: Columbia (or...
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    1110 Ma. The relative position of Congo–São Francisco within the supercontinent Nuna/Columbia can be reconstructed because these LIP events also affected other...
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    the supercontinent Rodinia, and Panthalassa, which surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea. Pannotia and Columbia, along with landmasses before Columbia (such...
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    breakup of continents, and occasionally supercontinents, in a process called the Wilson Cycle. The supercontinent Columbia or Nuna formed during a period of...
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    covers, or by new platforms on recently cratonized basements. The supercontinent Columbia started to break up during the Calymmian some 1500 Mya. The Volyn...
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    Earth's orbit. As part of the ongoing supercontinent cycle, plate tectonics will probably result in a supercontinent in 250–350 million years. Sometime in...
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    times in its past, Laurentia has been part of larger continents and supercontinents and consists of many smaller terranes assembled on a network of early...
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    when the continents of Laurentia and Amazonia collided, creating a supercontinent called Rodinia. The collision of these continents caused the rocks to...
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  • continents, which later merged with other continents to form the Columbia supercontinent. The name was first proposed by Blackwelder 1914 in reference to...
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  • Kalahari. The supercontinent Columbia, or Nuna, formed 2.1–1.8 billion years ago and broke up about 1.3–1.2 billion years ago. The supercontinent Rodinia is...
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  • Thumbnail for Xiong'er Volcanic Belt
    all of the continents were joined forming the Supercontinent Columbia, the earliest known supercontinent. The Xiong'er Volcanic Belt is very important...
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