What natural resources does Antarctica have?
… years ago, South America, Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand were all joined together in one very large mass called Gondwanaland. One piece of evidence that supports the idea of this large land mass is that all of these continents fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. It has also been found that when these continents are compared they share matching fossils, rock types, and land features. The best explanation for this similarity is that the rocks, fossils and land features formed when the continents were still joined together. When Gondwana started to break up, the land masses gradually moved into the positions that we see today. This idea that all the land masses were joined together allows us to make some assumptions about the geology of Antarctica even though very little of its crust is exposed. Much of what we know about the minerals present there is based on …
