Gondwana

Proper noun

Gondwana

1. A region of central India.
2. A southern supercontinent, formed before Pangaea between 600 and 530 million years ago, that included most of the landmasses which make up today's continents of the Southern Hemisphere.
   • Gondwana began to break up some 135 million years ago, yet evidence of the original junction still exists: Cliffs and mesa-like mountains in the western Sahara consist of sandstone similar to that of Mount Roraima.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 539
   • At that time, the Gondwana supercontinent was located at the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere, developed amphibolite metamorphism and formed the united crystalline basement at about 510 Ma.2020, Tianfeng Wan, The Tectonics and Metallogenesis of Asia, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 113

   Synonyms:

   Gondwanaland