gondwanaland

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older name for Gondwana
Laurasia Pangaea
a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica

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Gondwana
Southern supercontinent, formed after the break up of Pangaea before the Triassic Period, including most of the landmasses which make up today's continents of the southern hemisphere
Gondwana
Southern supercontinent, formed after the break up of Pangaea before the Triassic Period, including most of the landmasses which make up todays continents of the southern hemisphere
Gondwana
or Gondwanaland Hypothetical former supercontinent in the Southern Hemisphere, which included modern South America, Africa, southern Europe, India, Australia, and much of the Middle East and Antarctica. The concept that the continents were at one time joined was first set forth in detail by Alfred Wegener in 1912. He envisioned a single great landmass, Pangea, which supposedly began to separate late in the Triassic Period. Subsequent workers distinguished between a southern landmass, Gondwana, and Laurasia to the north. See also continental drift
gondwana
The early southern supercontinent composed of Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australasia and the Indian subcontinent
gondwana
The southern supercontinent including South America, Africa, India, and Antarctica
gondwana
the ancient southern supercontinent which, in the last 100 million years, split into fragments that drifted apart to produce the present southern hemisphere continental arrangement
gondwana
The land mass that included Australia, New Zealand and South America before it spit up some 65 million years ago
gondwana
A super-continent situated in the southern hemisphere that contained Antarctica, South America, Africa, Australia, India and New Zealand About 160 million years ago Gondwana began to break up and the individual land masses moved to their current positions