The continent of Gondwana was named by the Austrian scientist Eduard Suess, after the region in central India of the same name, which is derived from Sanskrit for "forest of the See more

Many terranes were accreted to Eurasia during Gondwana's existence, but the Cambrian or Precambrian origin of many of these terranes … See more

Gondwana and Laurasia formed the Pangaea supercontinent during the Carboniferous. Pangaea began to break up in the Mid-Jurassic when the Central Atlantic opened See more

The adjective "Gondwanan" is in common use in biogeography when referring to patterns of distribution of living organisms, typically when the … See more

• Continental drift, the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other
• Australasian realm
• Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
• The Great Escarpment of Southern Africa See more

The assembly of Gondwana was a protracted process during the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic, which remains incompletely … See more

Mesozoic
Antarctica, the centre of the supercontinent, shared boundaries with all other Gondwana continents and the fragmentation of Gondwana propagated clockwise around it. The break-up was the result of the … See more