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
South China (continent) Ocean. By the Late Carboniferous (300 million years ago), while North China collided with Siberia and Kazakhstania, completely closing the Proto-Tethys Ocean, South China became an independent continent. For much of the Permian Period, South China remained in the tropical latitudes. And also, while most of the giant lycopods of the Carboniferous disappeared, giant lycopods remained in South China, since its isolation from the now formed Pangaea. Cimmeria, a microcontinent that consisted of today's Tibet, Iran, Turkey, and parts of Southeast Asia rifted away from Gondwana (just as North and South China did earlier), and was heading towards Laurasia. Paleo-Tethys