Evidence for Pangea

How do we know that Pangea existed 250 million years ago? Fossil evidence and mountain belts provide some of the clues. The Permian-age fossil plant, Glossopteris , had seeds too heavy to be blown across an ocean. Yet Glossopteris fossils are found in South America, Africa, Australia, India and Antarctica! The mountain belts... See more

Geology of the Big Scrub Rainforest (Part 3)

Gondwana

The late Jurassic and

Cretaceous marks a very important geological time. It is the time that the huge

supercontinent of Pangea broke up. This when Gondwana became its own continent

with present day Australia and Antarctica being a large part of a new smaller,

but still impressive super-continent. Our... See more