Gondwana

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ɡɒndˈwɑːnə/    美 /ɡɑndˈwɑnə/

英文释义

专有名词
  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.
    — 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.

词汇关系

衍生词
Gondwanaland Gondwanan
相关词
Gondwanalandic
并列词
Laurasia

词源

Borrowed from Sanskrit गोण्डवन (goṇḍavana, “Forest of Gondi”). The continent was named after the region in India by Austrian scientist Eduard Suess in 1861.
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