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Sentence Examples Silurian and lower Devonian sedimentary successions are uncommon within the remnants of Gondwana. The Elephant Bird's Tale is a tale of Gondwana, and of continental drift or, as it is now called, plate tectonics. The Tethys Sea also expanded westward, splitting Pangaea into the supercontinents of Gondwana and Laurasia. When New Zealand split away from the supercontinent Gondwana some 80 million years ago, its flora and fauna were left to develop in isolation. During this period, the world's land was collected into two supercontinents, Gondwana and Euramerica. However, these rocks do record the earliest presence of dinosaurs in the form of numerous trackways in southwestern Gondwana. Of the three domains, the Eastern Domain sits farthest inboard, i.e. closest to the core of the former Gondwana supercontinent. It is generally agreed that the autochthonous sedimentary sequences were deposited in the northern margin of Gondwana. Amalgamation of the late Palaeozoic supercontinent Pangaea led to the collision of Gondwana with Laurasia forming the Variscan orogen. The collision between Gondwana and Laurasia led to the formation of the Appalachian belt in North America and the Hercynian Mountains in Europe. When the ratite birds first roamed Gondwana, they could walk from any of the places where they later dwelt, to any other. As envisaged by Robertson et al. continental fragments rifted from Gondwana in Triassic time. Preserved sediments record deposition in a periglacial to ice-margin lake that contains one of the earliest assemblages of freshwater arthropods from Gondwana. At the end of the Ordovician, Gondwana finally stopped its migration to the South Pole. South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica were joined into the Southern Hemisphere continent of Gondwana. The Menderes Massif is part of the Menderes-Tauride Block, a post-Permian microcontinent, which is allochthonous with respect to both Eurasia and Gondwana. The location and role of the Pan-African suture within East Gondwana continues to be debated. Australia developed a unique fauna when it broke away from the super-continent Gondwana more than 50 million years ago. The Cretaceous Period began with Earth's land assembled essentially into two continents, Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. So does the journal Gondwana Research but its logo consists of a bunch of unfamiliar blobs snugly cuddled against each other. Show More Sentences Attempts were also made to define the geological characteristics of the suture zone between West and East Gondwana. Major Cambrian and early Ordovician tectonism affected large areas of Gondwana in what are now Australia, Antarctica, and Argentina. Some authors further consider that East Gondwana itself formed at that time, assembling several small crustal blocks. The study will begin by preparing a database of sediment-hosted base metal deposits in Western Gondwana. At the onset of the period there existed two supercontinents, Gondwana in the south and Laurasia in the north. The preparation of a mineral deposit map of sediment-hosted base metal deposits of Western Gondwana is planned. To the east of Laurentia, the Siberian craton was positioned just south of the paleoequator between Laurentia and the western coast of Gondwana. Continental drift has shown that India, Australia, the Antarctic, Madagascar, Southern Africa and America were part of a land called Gondwana. In contrast, the northern basins are considered transtensional rifts that propagated southwards from the opposite margin of Gondwana. Glaciation of Africa resulted in a major drop in sea level, killing off all life that had established along coastal Gondwana. At any event, the far southern continental margins of Antarctica and West Gondwana became increasingly less barren. In Gondwana, England and Wales were largely submerged under a shallow sea studded with volcanic islands. Many Indian species descend from taxa originating in Gondwana, from which the Indian plate separated more than 105 million years before present. In the process, the Iapetus Ocean between Gondwana, Baltica and Laurentia closed. During the Ordovician, the southern continents were collected into Gondwana. Gondwana started the period in equatorial latitudes and, as the period progressed, drifted toward the South Pole. Initially, sea levels were high, but as Gondwana moved south, ice accumulated into glaciers and sea levels dropped. As with North America and Europe, Gondwana was largely covered with shallow seas during the Ordovician. If you look up Gondwana, you will see in the Late Triassic an area between Gondwana and Laurasia called the Tethys Sea. It was, like the various continents, a part of the supercontinent of Gondwana. Show More Sentences During this time, the supercontinent Pannotia begins to break up, most of which later became the supercontinent Gondwana. Towards the end of the Permian period, continued warming led to a dry, hot climate over much of Gondwana. As a result of continued warming, the polar ice caps melted and much of Gondwana became a desert. Glacially sculptured landforms now predominate, as they must have some 300 million years ago, in an earlier period of continental glaciation of all of Gondwana. In addition, new collisional events led to the formation of Gondwana, a supercontinent composed of what would become Australia, Antarctica, India, Africa, and South America. In contrast, the bulk of Gondwana was below 30° South latitude and experienced colder conditions that allowed the formation of continental glaciers. About 167 million years ago, the great southern continent called Gondwana began to break apart. A Memorandum of Understanding to promote financial literacy among the extensive staff of Gondwana Collection was signed last week. The Salamat and Doseo Basins formed during the break-up of the super continent of Gondwana in the Mesozoic Era. The lodge is part of the Gondwana Collection which has supported the professor's research project for years. Early in the Mesozoic, Gondwana split from its northern counterpart, Laurasia, to form the Tethys seaway, and the equatorial current became circumglobal. It consisted of a group of northern continents collectively referred to as Laurasia and a group of southern continents collectively referred to as Gondwana. In 1937 Alexander L. Du Toit, a South African geologist, modified Wegener's hypothesis by suggesting two primordial continents: Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. Some areas of Gondwana were tectonically active during Permian time, as evidenced by extensive basaltic, andesitic, and other volcanic rocks in eastern Australia. Whereas Wegener had postulated a single supercontinent, Pangea, Du Toit theorized that there were two such great landmasses: Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south, separated by an oceanic area called Tethys. The breakup of Gondwana occurred in stages. Also during the Devonian Period, Gondwana began impinging upon Laurussia. These zones reflect various paleogeographic settings within and marginal to the Iapetus Ocean, which separated ancient North America from Gondwana in the early Paleozoic. Besides conducting a geological survey to clarify the East-West Gondwana collision and dispersion, they will try to recover the Cenozoic glacial history and global environmental changes through a geomorphological survey. The Pacific margin of Gondwana is a long-lived Andean-type active margin, although there has been a great deal of strike-slip motion and opening of marginal basins in some provinces. Show More Sentences Recent studies in the New England Fold Belt of Eastern Australia revealed new evidence for the tectonic evolution of the eastern margin of Gondwana. Case histories focus on biogeographic relationships, stratigraphic significance, and palaeoenvironmental signals of important microand macro-fossil assemblages in the Mesozoic Western Gondwana and South Atlantic. The Caledonia Zone is generally considered to represent a crustal fragment rifted from the margin of Gondwana during opening of the Early Paleozoic Iapetus Ocean. It was pointed out that the late Pan-African events within East Gondwana were principally a rejuvenation along the boundary zone of continental blocks within East Gondwana. A major focus of IGCP 450 will be the development of a metallogenic model for this mineralisation, because of its bearing on exploration for similar deposits elsewhere in Western Gondwana. More importantly, the first arthropods went ashore to colonize the empty continent of Gondwana. By the end of the Ordovican, Gondwana was at the south pole, early North America had collided with Europe, closing the Atlantic Ocean. During the Middle Jurassic epoch, Pangaea began to separate into Laurasia and Gondwana, and the Atlantic Ocean formed. These have included Laurasia, Gondwana, Vaalbara, Kenorland, Columbia, Rodinia, and Pangaea. Geologists tend to study plate tectonics, meteorites from outer space, and resources from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. Consequently, trade winds moved water away from Gondwana towards Laurasia in the northern Panthalassa Equatorial Current. The South Polar Current then completes the gyre as the Southwestern Gondwana Current. While all this was happening, Gondwana drifted slowly towards the South Pole. The second step in the formation of Pangaea was the collision of Gondwana with Euramerica. Meanwhile, southern Europe broke off from Gondwana and began to move towards Euramerica across the newly formed Rheic Ocean. In the Devonian Period, Gondwana itself headed towards Euramerica, causing the Rheic Ocean to shrink. In the early Carboniferous movement of Gondwana to the north and its convergence with the Euramerica basin decreased in size. During the Carboniferous, Laurasia and Gondwana collided and thus began the formation of the supercontinent Pangea. All six groups of diamonds were found in areas that would once have lined the edge of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. Shaking hands are NamPost CEO Festus Hangula and Gondwana MD Mannfred Goldbeck. Show More Sentences Contrary to previous supposition, the evolutionary speciation of this genus is no longer thought to have occurred with the breakup of Gondwana through continental drift. The slow merger of Baltica and Laurentia, and the northward movement of bits and pieces of Gondwana created numerous new regions of relatively warm, shallow sea floor. The Jurassic North Atlantic Ocean was relatively narrow, while the South Atlantic did not open until the following Cretaceous period, when Gondwana itself rifted apart. But as dinosaurs were diversifying during the Jurassic, geological forces within the planet were dividing the world into Laurasia, in the north, and Gondwana, in the south. Geologically, the Indian subcontinent is related to the land mass that rifted from Gondwana and merged with the Eurasian plate nearly 55 million years ago. During the Triassic, the Earth's continents were united as Pangaea, with one southern landmass known as Gondwana and one northern one known as Laurasia. By the beginning of the Jurassic, the supercontinent Pangaea had begun rifting into two landmasses, Laurasia to the north and Gondwana to the south. Gondwana had by that time neared the south pole and was largely glaciated. The small continent Avalonia separated from Gondwana and began to move north towards Baltica and Laurentia, opening the Rheic Ocean between Gondwana and Avalonia. With the supercontinent Gondwana covering the equator and much of the southern hemisphere, a large ocean occupied most of the northern half of the globe. Part three describes the time when amphibians and reptiles in North America, the Elgin region, and Gondwana began to resemble modern-day creatures. Gondwana was glaciated as much of it was situated around the south pole. By this time, Gondwana was positioned near the South Pole and glaciers were forming in Antarctica, India, Australia, southern Africa and South America. Then in the Middle Cretaceous, Gondwana fragmented to open up the South Atlantic Ocean as South America started to move westward away from Africa. The Earth was generally cold during the early Cambrian, probably due to the ancient continent of Gondwana covering the South Pole and cutting off polar ocean currents. Examples from Classical Literature The Gondwana series is in many respects the most interesting and important series of the Indian Peninsula. She is more worshipped in Gondwana and the forest tracts to the east and south of it than in any other part of India. Several of the plants are identical with forms which occur in the upper portion of the Gondwana system. Meanwhile the other independent principalities of Gondwana had in turn succumbed. Upper Gondwana beds also occur in small patches at several other places near the east coast. The basin fill consists of Permo-Carboniferous Gondwana Group, Pliocene Dupi Tila Formation and Pleistocene Madhupur Clay. The upper part of the Gondwana series is not improbably Jurassic. The Gondwana beds contain fossils which are of very great interest. A strip of Gondwana beds follows approximately the course of the Godavari. The hand in the new Gondwana logo symbolises the handshake with which we greet our guests, individuality, the helping hand, cohesion and warm-heartedness. Find more words! 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