罗迪尼亚 (Rodinia) 超级大陆出现在大约12 亿至7亿5000万年前，它是其他几个超级大陆当中的一个，这些超级大陆 (supercontinents)在过去几亿年的时间，历经形成又分裂的阶段，在这些超级大陆之前，或许有更早期的超级大陆出现过。罗迪尼亚超级大陆的分裂，牵涉到许多地壳活动，譬如格林威尔造山运动(Grenville Orogeny), 在地球上留下许多较古老的火成岩 (igneous rocks)。盘古大陆 (Pangea) 也是一个超级大陆，它的形成和分裂时间，发生在罗迪尼亚超级大陆之后的几亿年。
连结网页
- A page about the geological history of Jamestown, Rhode Island has a section about Rodinia that shows a map by Peter R. Johnson (1998) of how the continent may have looked.
- As is usual for very ancient time scales, the Paleos website has a great page about Rodinia.
- There is a fine page by “Chris” at the Peripatus site about Rodinia with some good references and another map of how it may have been configured.
- Kevin P. Hefferan has a fantastic series of images about the world’s continents as they may have lain at various ages of geologic history linked from his simple page about Rodini
- The University of Western Australia provides us with some maps of Rodinia.