Figure 1.8: The breakup of Pangaea. The modern world map (E) depicts the current boundaries of the major tectonic plates. Pangaea is only the latest of several global configurations that have coalesced and then fragmented over the last billion years.
[Source consulted: Frank Press, Raymond Siever, John Grotzinger, and Thomas H. Jordan, Understanding Earth, 4th ed. (New York: W. H. Freeman, 2004), pp. 42–