What Happened After Gondwanaland Split?
Who really knows what happened that long ago in the past? No-one! And if we did know what happened at that period of time, what happened before that? Anyone? It is IMPOSSIBLE to know for sure that ‘Gondwanaland’ even existed! Sure it sounds spectacular, and the land masses (if you have a good imagination) kind of piece together. wouldn’t there be alot more erosion of the land? How did the land masses stay relatively the same after all that time? Boiled down, it is purely speculation and certainly cannot be classed as a scientific fact! Dennis Hayes has a very good imagination, he should get into science fiction books instead.
According to marine geophysicist Dennis Hayes, we don’t have good records about plate motions that happened before 200 million years ago. The oldest seafloor is only 200 million years old. Most earlier material has been recycled back into the hot interior. Gondwanaland is the most recent supercontinent, where several of today’s continental masses were either together or in close proximity. Putting Gondwanaland back together in your mind and then letting it drift apart, you can imagine the dispersal of huge pieces of Earth to their present locations in the last 150 million year episode of seafloor spreading. The parts of Gondwanaland all surrounded Antarctica, says Hayes, who takes his big Earth globe off its stand and turns it so that the South Pole is on top. As a supercontinent, it all fit together close to the South Pole. Antarctica has been near the South pole for most of the last 100 million years, within 5 10 degrees or so,” he says, “remaining relatively fixed as other pieces mo
