Gondwana

[ɡɔnd'wɑ:nə]

Gondwana: name of a region in north central India, from Sanskrit gondavana, from vana "forest" + Gonda, Sanskrit name of a Dravidian people, said to mean literally "fleshy navel, outie belly-button." The name was extended by geologists to a series of sedimentary rocks found there (1873), then to identical rocks in other places. Because the fossils found in this series were used by geologists to reconstruct the map of the supercontinent which broke up into the modern southern continents of the globe about 180 million years ago, this was called Gondwanaland (1896), from German, where it was coined by German geologist Eduard Suess (1831-1914) in 1885.

1. The formation and splitting of Gondwana land is still open to discussion.: 本文探讨了冈瓦纳古陆的形成和裂解的问题.

2. Meso - Tethys a sea lying between Laurasia and Gondwana during the Middle and Late Mesozoic.: 中特提斯是中生代中晚期存在于南、北大陆之间的海洋.

3. The supercontinent of Gondwana had just formed and was located near the South Pole.: 超大陆冈瓦那开始在南极附近形成.

4. They replenish the Xiakangjian flora and verify that this flora belongs to the Cathaysia - Gondwana mixed flora.: 等植物化石,进一步完善了夏康坚植物群的组合面貌,证实了此植物群确属华夏 - 冈瓦纳混合植物群.