supercontinent

noun

1. 超大陆（存在于几百万年之前，如冈瓦纳古陆或劳亚古陆）
   any of the very large areas of land, for example Gondwana or Laurasia, that existed millions of years ago

1. Russia stretches across much of the north of the supercontinent of Eurasia.
   俄罗斯横跨欧亚大陆北部的大部分地区。
2. The emerging supercontinent of Pangaea presented severe extremes of climate and environment due to its vast size.
   那时，正在形成中的超级盘古大陆由于其巨大的面积给地球带来了气候剧变。
3. The new research is focused on the Carboniferous Period, when the supercontinent of Pangea was covered in tropical rainforests ruled by reptiles.
   在30亿年前的石炭纪时代，大陆被热带雨林覆盖，并由爬行动物所统治。
4. The supercontinent of Pangea began to break apart in the Middle Jurassic.
   一亿五千二百万年前：泛大陆裂解分离中侏罗纪时期，泛大陆全面裂解。
5. In the Late Devonian, the Yangtze block began to separate from the supercontinent as Gondwana significantly rotated clockwise.
   晚泥盆世、冈瓦那大陆发生大规模顺时针旋转，扬子地块开始与之分离。
6. Most amber deposits have been found in former parts of Laurasia, the other supercontinent of the time.
   大多数琥珀沉积物都是在当时的另一块超大陆劳拉古陆的前部找到的。
7. His long-term forecast, despite the uncertainties, portrays a distant time when the world's continents come together again to form a new supercontinent, which he calls Pangea Ultima.
   他的长期预测，尽管充满不确定性，呈现遥远的未来世界的大陆板块会再聚合，形成新超级大陆，他称之为「终极盘古大陆」。
8. Both the Neoproterozoic and the Permian were times of supercontinent breakup with major landmasses at low latitudes.
   无论是新元古代和二叠纪都是超极大陆式别离在低纬度地域主要的陆地。
9. The Permian period saw the creation of the supercontinent Pangaea, where shallow seas in and around the huge landmass offered a home to an abundance of life.
   二叠纪期间，看到创造了超盘古大陆，其中浅海和周围的巨大的地块提供了回家了丰富的生活。
10. We are entering a new phase of continental collision that will ultimately result in the formation of a new Pangea supercontinent in the future.
    我们进入了大陆碰撞的新阶段，这最终会在未来形成新的盘古超大陆。
11. China and Mongolia were on the whole re-assembled after the Indosinian orogeny to become part of the Laurasia Supercontinent, which was the northern half of the Permian-Triassic Pangaea.
    中国蒙古各地块大致于印支运动末期（210Ma）重新聚合，成为劳亚超大陆，即二叠纪&三叠纪泛大陆北支的一部分。
12. After breakup of the supercontinent, all the three basins became passive continental margins from the Sinian to Early-Mid Ordovician and failed foreland basins from the Mid-Late Ordovician to Silurian, reflecting basin-range transition between the three blocks and ocean basins on their margins.
    泛大陆解体后，震旦纪&早中奥陶世为被动大陆边缘，中晚奥陶世至志留纪为夭折前陆盆地，代表三大陆块与周边洋盆的盆山转换。
13. The formation and evolution of the continental crust of China may fall into four stages: Archean-Paleoproterozoic, Mesoproterozoic-early Neoproterozoic, middle Neoproterozoic-Paleocene and Eocene-present, with each stage corresponding to a breakup-convergence cycle of the supercontinent.
    中国大陆地壳的形成与演化可以划分为太古宙古元古代、中元古代新元古代早期、新元古代中期古新世和始新世以来4个构造阶段，每个阶段都对应不同的超大陆裂解-聚合旋回。
14. The study of supercontinent breakup is a modern frontier project of earth science.
    超大陆裂解是当今地学研究最前沿课题。