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Gondwanaland   /gˌɑndwˈɑnɑlˌænd/   Listen
Gondwanaland

noun
1.
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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... will force us to pass on to consideration of minerals of economic value. The line of snow-covered peaks, composed mainly of crystalline rocks and forming a core to the Himalaya in a way analogous to the granitic core of the Alps, occupies what was once apparently the northern shore of Gondwanaland, and to the north of it there stretched the great ocean of Tethys, covering the central parts of Asia and Europe, one of its shrunken relics being the present Mediterranean Sea. The bed of this ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie


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