Posted on Aug 16, 2022
What's the largest ocean that ever existed on Earth?
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The Pacific Ocean represents the remnants of the biggest body of water in the planet's history.
What's the largest ocean that ever existed on Earth?
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I don't remember what it was originally called, but it was spawned from what is now the Pacific Ocean... It took millions of years for the Earth to form as we know it today, but at the beginning the land mass was pretty much connected... The movement of the tectonic plates separated the single land mass into many segments and when one looks at South America and the African Coastline in the Atlantic ocean, one can visually see how the plates moved the land mass apart to yield what we now see today... It is an amazing story in and of itself...
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
That would be Panthalassa, a world-spanning sea that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea from about 300 million to 200 million years ago,
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Great science share. All I know is that the Pacific is big enough when flying nonstop across it, hate to think that it was once bigger.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
A lot bigger. Our continents were once part of one really huge continent and all the rest was ocean...
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SSG Bill McCoy
Lt Col Charlie Brown - hence the souce of N. America's original (known) inhabitants over the land mass that is now the Bearing Straight (Strait?). Definitely before Columbus or the Vikings. :)
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