Siberia (continent)

Siberia, also known as Siberian Craton, Angaraland (or simply Angara) and Angarida,^[1] is an ancient craton in the heart of Siberia. Today forming the Central Siberian Plateau, it formed an independent landmass prior to its fusion into Pangea during the Late Carboniferous-Permian. The Verkhoyansk Sea, a passive continental margin, was fringing the Siberian Craton to the east in what is now the East Siberian Lowland.^[2]

Angaraland was named in the 1880s by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess who erroneously believed that in the Paleozoic Era there were two large continents in the Northern Hemisphere: "Atlantis", North America connected to Europe by a peninsula (=Greenland and Iceland); and "Angara-land", eastern Asia, named after the Angara River in Siberia.^[3]

^ Klets, A. G.; Budnikov, I. V.; Kutygin, R. V.; Biakov, A. S.; Grinenko, V. S. (2006). "The Permian of the Verkhoyansk–Okhotsk region, NE Russia". Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 26 (3): 258–268. Bibcode:2006JAESc..26..258K. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2005.10.001.
^ Permian bivalve mollusks of Northeast Asia, Fig. 1
^ Sprague de Camp, L. (1970). Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486226682. Retrieved 25 October 2015.

[1] Klets, A. G.; Budnikov, I. V.; Kutygin, R. V.; Biakov, A. S.; Grinenko, V. S. (2006). "The Permian of the Verkhoyansk–Okhotsk region, NE Russia". Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 26 (3): 258–268. Bibcode:2006JAESc..26..258K. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2005.10.001.

[2] Permian bivalve mollusks of Northeast Asia, Fig. 1

[3] Sprague de Camp, L. (1970). Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486226682. Retrieved 25 October 2015.

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