Gondwana en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /ɡɒndˈwɑːnə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɡɑndˈwɑnə/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit गोण्डवन (goṇḍavana, “Forest of Gondi”). The continent was named after the region in India by Austrian scientist Eduard Suess in 1861.
Meanings
- A region of central India.
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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.
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: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:
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Deriveds
Gondwanic · Gondwanan · Gondwanaland
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Translations (36)
pl Gondwana (southern supercontinent) · cmn 岡瓦那大陸 /冈瓦那大陆 (southern supercontinent) · fi Gondwanamanner (southern supercontinent) · gd Gondwana (southern supercontinent) · kk Гондвана (southern supercontinent) · ko 곤드와나 (southern supercontinent) · fi Gondwanamaa (southern supercontinent) · ja ゴンドワナ大陸 (southern supercontinent) · fr Gondwana (southern supercontinent) · ml ഗോണ്ട്വാന ഭൂഖണ്ഡം (southern supercontinent) · id Gondwana (southern supercontinent) · kn ಗೋಂಡ್ವಾನ ಖಂಡ (southern supercontinent) · mk Гондва́на (southern supercontinent) · ka გონდვანა (southern supercontinent) · es Gondwana (southern supercontinent) · de Gondwana (southern supercontinent) · fi Gondwana (southern supercontinent) · ga Gonduana (southern supercontinent) · ml ഗോണ്ട്വാന (region) · ky Гондвана (southern supercontinent) · bg Гондва́на (southern supercontinent) · te గోండ్వానా (region) · bn গন্ডোয়ানা (southern supercontinent) · ru Гондва́на (southern supercontinent) · da Gondwanaland (southern supercontinent) · cv Гондвана (southern supercontinent) · bn গোণ্ডোয়ানা (region) · cmn 岡瓦納大陸 /冈瓦纳大陆 (southern supercontinent) · pt Gondwana (southern supercontinent) · ga Gonduanalainn (southern supercontinent) · fa گوندوانا (southern supercontinent) · ks گونٛڈوانا (southern supercontinent) · ta கோண்டுவானா (region) · ta கோண்டுவானா (southern supercontinent) · az Qondvana (southern supercontinent) · bg Гондва́на (region)
wikidata: Q1537074 · wikipedia: Eduard Suess · wikidata: Q80583