Pacifica

Japanese: Pacifica
Pacifica

...These mountains are the present-day Appalachian and Caledonian fold mountains where the Atlantic Ocean opened up again. In the Pacific Ocean, the marginal seas opened and closed on both the eastern and western edges during the Paleozoic Era, and it has been proposed that the mythical supercontinent Pacifica, which is thought to have existed in the Southern Hemisphere, broke into pieces and moved, being added to the eastern and western continents one after another. The basis of the Wilson cycle idea is that plate tectonics existed in the Paleozoic Era or even earlier.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Pacifica" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この山脈が大西洋が再び開いた現在のアパラチアやカレドニアの褶曲山脈である。 太平洋では古生代には東西両縁で縁海が開いたり閉じたりしたほか,南半球にあったとされる幻の超大陸パシフィカPacificaがちりぢりに裂けて移動し,東西の各大陸に次々と付加されたとの考えが提唱されている。 ウィルソンサイクルの考えの基本は,古生代またはそれ以前にもプレートテクトニクスは成り立つとする点にある。…

※「Pacifica」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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