Download or read book The Changing Face of the Earth written by Bruno Vrielynck and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2003 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 250 million years ago, at the beginning of the Mesozoic era, the world's continents were grouped into a single supercontinent known as Pangaea. This publication contains information on the key stages in the break-up of this supercontinent into the geological face of the Earth as we know it today. It includes 11 maps, based on recent scientific work, with explanatory notes, a glossary of terms and a CD-ROM of the map images in bmp, tiff, pict and powerpoint formats.