English Explanatory Dictionary

Atlantica

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An ancient continent that formed during the Proterozoic about 2,000 million years ago from various 2 Ga cratons located in what are now West Africa and eastern South America.

Word forms

Atlantica

Etymology

The name was introduced by John J. W. Rogers in 1996, because the parts of the ancient continent are now located on opposite sides of the South Atlantic Ocean.

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