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Figure 6. Further evolution of the mantle-continent system in Model 2. The view of the globe as seen from the observation point with coordinates 45oS and 210oE, At the instant of dimensionless time t = 14.0298 a supercontinent if formed from three continents. At the instant of dimensionless time t = 14.03296 all the five continents unite into a single supercontinent - Pangea. By the instant of dimensionless time t = 14.0355 there remains, following the breakup of Pangea, a system of hot ascending mantle convection flows similar to the giant hot anomaly beneath the Pacific Ocean.