羅迪尼亞 (Rodinia) 超級大陸出現在大約12 億至7億5000萬年前，它是其他幾個超級大陸當中的一個，這些超級大陸 (supercontinents)在過去幾億年的時間歷經形成又分裂的階段，在這些超級大陸之前或許有更早期的超級大陸出現過。羅迪尼亞超級大陸的分裂牽涉到許多地殼活動，譬如格林威爾造山運動(Grenville Orogeny), 在地球上留下許多較古老的火成岩 (igneous rocks)。盤古大陸 (Pangea) 也是一個超級大陸，它的形成和分裂時間發生在羅迪尼亞超級大陸之後的幾億年。
友誼網頁連結
- 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.