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  • proper noun The world supercontinent that formed at the end of the Mesoproterozoic era, then broke into eight continents during the Neoproterozoic.

Etymologies

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From Russian родина ("homeland").

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Examples

  • In fact, there have been many supercontinents in earth’s history, with the oldest one known as Rodinia.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

  • In fact, there have been many supercontinents in earth’s history, with the oldest one known as Rodinia.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

  • Scientists believe there was an earlier supercontinent that formed 1.1 billion years ago (dubbed Rodinia), and they speculate about ones earlier than that.

    Informed Reader 2007

  • Now they've found evidence that parts of North America and East Antarctica were joined in a supercontinent called Rodinia 1.1 billion years ago - even earlier than Pangaea.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Both were once part of a supercontinent that existed long before the famed Pangea - a giant, early land mass called Rodinia, she said.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • The geological record goes further; the picture is a little more fuzzy the further back in time you look, but the fragments that came together to form Pangaea seem to have themselves been the scattered remnants of an even earlier supercontinent (mostly referred to as Rodinia), which was itself welded together from older fragments.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

  • Rodinia Minerals Inc. ( "Rodinia" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: RM) (OTCQX: RDNAF), is pleased to announce that shareholders of the Company have approved the name change of the Company to

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • The Cambrian opened with the breakup of the world-continent Rodinia and closed with the formation of Pangea, as the Earth's continents came together once again.

    Paleozoic 2009

  • The writer is disappointed that I made up the fact that Rodan came from the ancient continent Rodinia.

    Promising to do to Science Fiction What Gawker Did to Celebrity « Whatever 2008

  • The writer is disappointed that I made up the fact that Rodan came from the ancient continent Rodinia.

    2008 January 02 « Whatever 2008

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