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Gondwanaland Geol.|gɒndˈwɑːnəlænd|
Also Gondwana (Gondwána) land.
[a. G. Gondwána-Land (E. Suess Antlitz d. Erde (1885) I. xii. 768), f. prec. (see quot. 1904 below) + land n.]
A vast continental area or supercontinent thought to have once existed in the southern hemisphere and to have broken up in Mesozoic or late Palæozoic times forming Arabia, Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia, and the peninsula of India. Also, these land masses collectively as they exist today.
1896W. T. Blanford in Rec. Geol. Surv. India XXIX. 52 The southern continent, of which India formed part, and which is widely known by an Indian name, the Gondwána land of Suess. 1904H. Sollas tr. Suess's Face of Earth I. 596 We call this mass Gondwána-Land, after the ancient Gondwána flora which is common to all its parts. 1909Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LXV. p. ii, Expedition to the Falkland Islands... A claystone, containing blocks, apparently of glacial origin,..undoubtedly corresponds with the moraines from other parts of Gondwanaland. 1927Peake & Fleure Apes & Men 18 The movement of Africa northwards is said to be a part of a general breaking up of the ancient southern continent known to science as Gondwanaland. 1936J. C. Brown India's Min. Wealth (ed. 2) i. 13 The coalfields of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa..are isolated fragments of the once continuous Gondwana land. 1965A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (ed. 2) xxx. 1190 The peripheral ring of Gondwanaland is interrupted not only by the South Atlantic, but also by the Indian Ocean. 1970Nature 10 Jan. 142/2 Estimates of the time of break-up of Gondwanaland range from the Permian to the Cretaceous. |