What name is given to the original land mass from which the modern continents have developed?
Land time scales lasting hundreds of millions of years, the supercontinents have formed and broken apart three times. Roughly (million years ago), one of the earliest known supercontinents, Rodinia, began to break apart. The continents later recombined to form Pannotia, 600–, then finally Pangaea, which also broke apart . "Land mass" refers to the total surface area of the land of a geographical region or country (which may include discontinuous pieces of land such as islands). It is written as two words to distinguish it from the usage "landmass", the contiguous area of land surrounded by ocean. Earth's total land mass
Augustine (given name) Augustine (given name) Augustine is a masculine given name derived from the Latin word "augere", meaning "to increase." The Latin form "Augustinus" is developed from "Augustus" which means "venerable" and was a title given to Roman emperors. Saint Augustine of Hippo was a significant early Christian theologian and Doctor of the Church and his prominence in Catholic and Protestant theology contributed to the given name's spread across Europe and into further continents through evangelism. In both the vulgar of French and English used in the High Middle Ages, the name was frequently shortened to or pronounced as "Aoustin" or "Austin"