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    Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent. The remnants of Gondwana make up around two-thirds of today's continental area, including South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Zealandia, Arabia, and the Indian Subcontinent. Gondwana was formed by the accretion of … See more

    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

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    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

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

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    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

     
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  2. Gondwana | Ancient Landmass, Plate Tectonics

    Oct 14, 2024 · According to plate tectonic evidence, Gondwana was assembled by continental collisions in the Late Precambrian (about 1 billion to 542 million …

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  4. How the Ancient Land Blob Gondwana Became …

    Mar 12, 2024 · Gondwana was a giant landmass that included Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica and other continents. It formed and broke apart over hundreds of millions of years due to tectonic plate movements and …

  5. What Was The Gondwana Supercontinent? - WorldAtlas

    May 21, 2018 · Gondwana was a huge landmass that fragmented to form the current day continents of America, Africa, Australia, India, and others. It existed from the Neoproterozoic to the Mesozoic era and collided with Laurussia to …

  6. What is Gondwana? - Live Science

    Jun 7, 2013 · Gondwana was an ancient supercontinent that drifted toward the Southern Hemisphere and broke up into Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, India and Arabia.

  7. What is Gondwana: the ancient supercontinent that …

    Jan 11, 2023 · Gondwana was a landmass that incorporated present-day South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica. It existed from 550 to 180 million years ago, and broke up into smaller continents due to …

  8. Gondwana - New World Encyclopedia

    Gondwana began to break up in the mid- to late Jurassic (about 167 million years ago) when East Gondwana, comprising Antarctica-Madagascar-India-Australia, began to separate from Africa during the Middle Jurassic.

  9. What is the lost world of Gondwana? - Museum Wales

    Tropical seas surrounding the Australasian sector of Gondwana were an important centre for the origin of new marine life, like maritime South-East Asia is today. 440 million years ago, the world was recovering after ice age and mass …

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