Pangaea (album) Pangaea (album) Pangaea is a double album recorded by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. It was originally released in 1976, exclusively in Japan. Both "Pangaea" and its predecessor "Agharta" (1975) were recorded on February 1, in Osaka, Japan, at the Festival Hall. The "Agharta" concert took place during an afternoon matinee, whereas "Pangaea" was recorded in the evening. The album's music was split into two tracks, "Zimbabwe" and "Gondwana", the latter of which was the name of the ancient supercontinent, as was "Pangaea". According to music scholar Enrico Merlin, the two tracks contain performances of the segments originally developed by Davis
Pangaea be removed, leaving geologists with the portion of this motion that shows continental drift and can be used to help reconstruct earlier continental positions. The continuity of mountain chains provides further evidence for Pangaea. One example of this is the Appalachian Mountains chain, which extends from the southeastern United States to the Caledonides of Ireland, Britain, Greenland, and Scandinavia. There were three major phases in the break-up of Pangaea. The first phase began in the Early-Middle Jurassic (about 175 Ma), when Pangaea began to rift from the Tethys Ocean in the east to the Pacific in the west. The rifting