#Embrace pangea series

#Embrace pangea series

After 100 million years, Kenorland broke apart, and the cycle began anew.Īs new tectonic plates formed, they collided with existing landmasses, forming a series of ever-larger supercontinents: Columbia, then Rodinia and most recently Pangea, which formed about 335 million years ago, stretching from pole to pole along the longitudes of the mid-Atlantic.

Over the next 300 million years, additional land formed through volcanic action, clustering with Ur to form Kenorland. The first of these, Ur - at the time Earth’s only landmass - formed 3 billion years ago its remains constitute parts of Australia, India, and Madagascar.

Early supercontinents formed while dry land was still emerging from the seas, so they were far smaller than Pangea. The motion of these continental plates likely began about 3.5 billion years ago, producing numerous configurations through the ages, the details of which are largely speculative. Pieces of the lithosphere - seven major plates and dozens of microplates - glide ever-so-slowly across the asthenosphere like a puck across an air-hockey table, moved by a combination of thermal convection, gravity and rotational forces. At the boundary between the two regions, where temperatures are around 1300° C, the mantle acts as a dense, highly viscous fluid, buoying the rigid crust. This, the lithosphere, rests upon a layer of superheated rock, the asthenosphere. The surface of the planet, both the dry land and the ocean floor, actually consists of rocky plates, each about 100 kilometers thick. In highly simplified terms, continental drift occurs because only a relatively small proportion of the Earth’s substance is solid matter. So swift and complete was this paradigm shift that some called it “ the plate tectonics revolution. By the late 1960s, mounting evidence had moved the consensus toward acceptance of the new science of plate tectonics. Holmes’ insights inspired subsequent research among physicists, geologists and seismologists worldwide. Indeed, Wegener's idea was largely dismissed until the 1950s, when British geologist Arthur Holmes proposed that convection in the Earth’s mantle drove spreading in the ocean floor. ”īut because Wegener’s model lacked a plausible mechanism for continental movement, most thinkers of the age didn't catch his drift. Geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener in the early 1900s elaborated on this idea, calling it “ continental drift. Geological similarities in the bedrock further suggested that these continents were once part of a single mass. Sixteenth-century cartographer Abraham Ortelius was the first to envision the coastlines of America, Europe and Africa as fitting together like puzzle pieces. There were supercontinents before Pangea and unfathomable ages hence, there will likely be others. But plate tectonics is a continuous process even now we are undergoing long-term changes whose progress we cannot perceive - a cycle that plays out over hundreds of millions of years. From our human viewpoint, the current world map seems a fait accompli. That’s the story as you probably learned it - but it’s not the whole story. Through a long and infinitesimally slow process of fracturing and continental drift, we ended up with our familiar seven continents. A single enormous landmass dominated the globe, a supercontinent retroactively called Pangea (or Pangaea, if you prefer either way, it's Greek for “all Earth”). “The Fearless Living Workshop was so rejuvenating and clarifying.Unfathomable ages ago, the continents of the Earth were not in their current places. Read testimonials from past retreat attendees here.Įmail with any questions. The Embrace Your Inner Goddess retreat will be facilitated by Integrative Coach and author of The Movement, Marine Sélénée and Pink Pangea Co-Founder, Jaclyn Mishal.ĭate: February 12, 7pm – 10pm, February 13, 10am – 7pm

Feel emotionally and physically refreshed.

Find empowerment alongside intelligent and diverse women.

Immerse ourselves in guided writing and meditation activities.

Let go of limiting beliefs and experience a new kind of freedom and power.

Participate in transformative workshops.

In the Embrace Your Inner Goddess Retreat, we will:

Through nourishing writing exercises, meditation workshops, and interactive activities, we will create a space for deep and transformative breakthroughs. During the Embrace Your Inner Goddess Retreat, we’ll participate in four powerful activities to create what we want, understand what’s in our way, and clear the path to fully embrace our true self. This day-and-a-half retreat is designed for those of us who are ready to connect with our power and embrace our inner goddess. Embrace Your Inner Goddess // February 12-13, 2016