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Panthalassa Geol.|pænθəˈlæsə|
Also panthalassa.
[f. pan- + Gr. θάλασσα sea.]
A universal sea or single ocean, such as would have surrounded Pangæa.
1893E. Suess in Natural Sci. II. 186 We might..rather be induced to infer that in Prepalæozoic times there may have existed a universal hydrosphere or panthalassa covering the whole of the planet. 1924J. G. A. Skerl tr. Wegener's Orig. Continents & Oceans x. 149 It is..not improbable that in the most ancient ‘pre-geological times’ the film of sial..could then have been..only about 30 km. thick, and have been covered with a ‘Panthalassa’..which probably left exposed only small proportions, or none at all, of the earth's surface. 1937A. L. Du Toit Our Wandering Continents x. 210 The Drift Hypothesis..has to view the great geosynclinal seaways of earlier geological history as branches, albeit important ones, of a universal ocean or ‘Panthalassa’, which was transformed into the present oceans through the horizontal drifting of the crustal blocks. 1970R. S. Dietz in Johnson & Smith Megatectonics Continents & Oceans iii. 36 (caption) Accretionary development of two supercontinents (Laurasia and Gondwana)..producing two super⁓continents of equal area, surrounded by the equatorial universal ocean of Panthalassa. Ibid. iii. 43 The Pacific Ocean may be regarded as the remnant of Panthalassa, with the Atlantic, Arctic, and Indian Oceans being mostly rift oceans. |