What is or was Gondwanaland?
The Gondwana region that exists today is in northern India and its rocky formations are very interesting to geologists. This part of the earth’s crust seems to be related to formations on distant continents. In the past these areas may have been joined in a huge Gondwanaland. The record of the earth’s geological past is written in the layers of its rocky crust. The chapters of the long diary are eras divided into paragraphs called periods. The geological periods are named for regions where the rock formations were first studied. The Jurassic Period was first observed in the Jural Mountains; the Devonian formations were first studied in Devon. However, no period was named for the interesting formations found in the Gondwana region of India. But this system of rocks may reveal more of the earth’s past than any geOlogical period. Its rocky layers solidified from silty sands deposited after an ancient Ice Age. similar Gondwana formations are found in south Africa and south America, in Aust
