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Rodinia

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Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

From Russian ро́дина (ródina, “homeland”), coined by Mark McMenamin and Dianna McMenamin in 1990.

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