Reconstruction of Pangaea: Breakup and Dispersion of Continents, Permian to Present

Journal of Geophysical Research 75(26): 4939–4956. The classic plate-tectonic reconstruction of Pangaea in the Permian and its staged dispersal, period by period: the breakup commencing in the Triassic with separate rifts (the southwest Indian Ocean rift splitting West from East Gondwana, a North Atlantic–Caribbean rift lifting Laurasia off South America and Africa), continuing through the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Cenozoic. Its Scientific American version (November 1970) supplied the end-Triassic plate map on which Nehring drew the 'ring of oil'.