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/ˌɡɑndˈwɑnɑˌɫænd/
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NOUN
- a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica
How To Use Gondwanaland In A Sentence
- A hypothetical supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic Period. When continental drift began, Pangaea broke up into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
- Dulongjiang area is the north part of Burma-Malaya Geoblock of Gondwanaland. During th Mesozoic Era it collided with the Eurasian Plate, and became the southwestern borderland of East Asia Continent.
- On Sept. 10, 1994, a New South Wales naturalist named David Noble abseiled into one of the more than 500 canyons in Wollemi National Park -- some 60 miles east of the megalopolis of Sydney -- and discovered a stand of prehistoric coniferous Wollemi pines, representing the 110-million-year-old supercontinent of Gondwanaland. Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur
- The orogenic event started before 460 million years ago and lasted until at least 420 million years ago, possibly as a result of far-field plate interactions with Gondwanaland. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
- First it formed two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
- It happens that the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland began during the age of the dinosaurs.
- The idea is called the biotic ferry because India was isolated for millions of years after being connected to the ancient continent of Gondwanaland.
- Then Gondwanaland itself split to form what we now know as South America, Africa and Madagascar.
- The range was formed in the extensional environment associated with the Mesozoic and Cenozoic breakup of Gondwanaland.
- It happens that the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland began during the age of the dinosaurs.