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Pannotia was centred on the South Pole, hence its name. Pannotia (from Greek: pan-, "all", -nótos, "south"; meaning "all southern land"), also known as the Vendian supercontinent, Greater Gondwana, and the Pan-African supercontinent, was a relatively short-lived Neoproterozoic supercontinent that formed at the end of the Precambrian during the Pan-African orogeny (650–500 Ma), during the ...
Reconstruction of how the Iapetus Ocean and surrounding continents might have been arranged during the late Ediacaran period. The Iapetus Ocean (/ aɪ ˈ æ p ɪ t ə s /; eye-AP-ih-təs) [1] existed in the late Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic eras of the geologic timescale (between 600 and 400 million years ago).
A country found in the Middle English romance King Horn. Xibalba: The underworld in Mayan mythology. Yomi: The land of the dead according to Shinto mythology, as related in the Kojiki. Yomotsu Hirasaka: A slope or boundary between this world, where the living live, and the other world, where the dead live . Zabag
Pan-African Ocean, the ocean that surrounded the Pannotia supercontinent; Panthalassa, the vast world ocean that surrounded the Pangaea supercontinent, also referred to as the Paleo-Pacific Ocean; Pharusian Ocean, Neoproterozoic; Poseidon Ocean, Mesoproterozoic; Pontus Ocean, the western part of the early Mesozoic Panthalassa Ocean
The continents later recombined to form Pannotia, then finally Pangaea, which broke apart . The present pattern of ice ages began about , then intensified at the end of the Pliocene. The polar regions have since undergone repeated cycles of glaciation and thawing, repeating every 40,000–100,000 years.
1.2 Complete list of codices found in Nag Hammadi. 1.3 Mandaean texts. 1.4 Other. 1.5 Quoted ... Related literature. List of Gospels; Apocalyptic literature; Epistles ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Some examples of topoi are the following: the locus amoenus (for example, the imaginary world of Arcadia) and the locus horridus (for example, Dante's Inferno);; the idyll ...