- Gondwana - Wikipedia
Gondwana was formed by the accretion of several cratons (large stable blocks of the Earth's crust), beginning c 800 to 650 Ma with the East African Orogeny, the collision of India and Madagascar with East Africa, and culminating in c 600 to 530 Ma with the overlapping Brasiliano and Kuunga orogenies, the collision of South America with Africa
- Gondwana | Ancient Landmass, Plate Tectonics Climate . . .
Some 180 million years ago, in the Jurassic Period, the western half of Gondwana (Africa and South America) separated from the eastern half (Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica)
- Gondwana - New World Encyclopedia
Gondwana itself began to break up in the mid to late Jurassic period about 150 million years ago The continent was named after the Gondwana region of India, and literally means "Land (wana) of the Gonds "
- What Was The Gondwana Supercontinent? - WorldAtlas
Gondwana was a huge landmass that fragmented to form the current day America, Africa, Australia, India, Arabian Peninsula, Balkans, Madagascar, and Antarctica The merger concentrated on the southern hemisphere
- How the Ancient Land Blob Gondwana Became Todays Continents
Gondwana, also called Gondwanaland, was the ancient supercontinent that consisted of present-day Africa, Arabia, South America, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Australia, India and Antarctica
- Supercontinents 101: Pannotia, Gondwana, and Pangea
Gondwana was a supercontinent that existed from about 550 to 180 million years ago It was formed when several smaller continents, including what is now South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica, collided and merged together
- What is Gondwana: the ancient supercontinent that changed Earth
Gondwana incorporated present-day South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica But what happened to Gondwana, and what can it tell us about our planet’s history?
- Gondwanaland: the search for a land before (human) time
Around 400 million years ago, before Australia was a continent on its own, we were lying on our side, attached to Antarctica, India, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, and Aotearoa New Zealand, in a giant land mass called Gondwanaland (also commonly known as ‘Gondwana’) This ancient
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