- 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,
- Ancient Landmass, Plate Tectonics Climate - Britannica
The name Gondwanaland was coined by the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess in reference to Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic formations in the Gondwana region of central India, which are similar to formations of the same age on Southern Hemisphere continents
- 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 supercontinent – tucked away deep in time – existed well before humans, before human ancestors
- 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
- What is Gondwana? - Live Science
Gondwana was an ancient supercontinent that broke up about 180 million years ago The continent eventually split into landmasses we recognize today: Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica,
- What is Gondwana? (with pictures) - AllTheScience
Gondwana, which used to be called Gondwanaland, is an ancient and very large continent that was composed of much of present-day South America, Africa, Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica
- 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
- Gondwana Land - New histories of an ancient mega-continent
The Gondwana Land Project is researching and writing the modern history of an ancient megacontinent It brings together historians across the former Gondwanaland, now India, Australia, Southern Africa, South America, and Antarctica
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