GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The southern supercontinent of Gondwana (also called Gondwanaland) (see GONDWANALAND AND GONDWANA) was the Palaeozoic amalgamation of South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent, as well as several smaller terranes.

Detailed explanation-2: -About 200 million years ago Pangaea broke into two new continents Laurasia and Gondwanaland. Laurasia was made of the present day continents of North America (Greenland), Europe, and Asia. Gondwanaland was made of the present day continents of Antarctica, Australia, South America.

Detailed explanation-3: -Modern geology has shown that Pangea did actually exist. In contrast to Wegener’s thinking, however, geologists note that other Pangea-like supercontinents likely preceded Pangea, including Rodinia (circa 1 billion years ago) and Pannotia (circa 600 million years ago).

Detailed explanation-4: -Dinosaurs lived on all of the continents. At the beginning of the age of dinosaurs (during the Triassic Period, about 230 million years ago), the continents were arranged together as a single supercontinent called Pangea. During the 165 million years of dinosaur existence this supercontinent slowly broke apart.

Detailed explanation-5: -Pangaea or Pangea (/pænˈdʒiː.ə/) was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.