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Gondwanaland

Southern landmass formed 200 million years ago by the splitting of the single world continent Pangaea. (The northern landmass was Laurasia.) It later fragmented into the continents of South America, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica, which then drifted slowly to their present positions. The baobab tree found in both Africa and Australia is a relic of this ancient land mass.

A database of the entire geology of Gondwanaland has been constructed by geologists in South Africa. The database, known as Gondwana Geoscientific Indexing Database (GO-GEOID), displays information as a map of Gondwana 155 million years ago, before the continents drifted apart.



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