Pan-African Ocean

Pan-African Ocean

The Pan-African Ocean is an hypothesized paleo-ocean that surrounded the supercontinent of Pannotia. The ocean may have existed before the break-up of a supercontinent of Rodinia. The ocean closed before the beginning of the Phanerozoic Eon, when the Panthalassa ocean expanded, and was eventually replaced by it.

ee also

* Pan-African orogeny
* Mirovia

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