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Gondwanaland

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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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Suffice it to say that this exotic piece of geology, a remnant of Gondwanaland left behind after the breakup of Pangea, is the 'home' of the GEO CENTRE and is given special attention.
The Johnson GEO CENTRE: earth's geological showcase by Blackwood, R. Frank / Geoscience Canada
In short, build a theme park and there goes Gondwanaland.
Theme park plan as dumb as the dump by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
The islands broke away from Gondwanaland more than 80 million years ago, and for about 79,999,200 years after that, save for two species of bat, there were no mammals.
The call of the kiwi: New Zealanders are working to save their ... by Wagner, Eric / Earth Island Journal
 
 
 
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