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Gondwana (/ ɡ ɒ n d ˈ w ɑː n ə /) [1] was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent. The remnants of Gondwana make up around two-thirds of today's continental area, including South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Zealandia, Arabia, and the Indian subcontinent.
The term Pan-African was coined by Kennedy 1964 for a tectono-thermal event at about 500 Ma when a series of mobile belts in Africa formed between much older African cratons. At the time, other terms were used for similar orogenic events on other continents, i.e. Brasiliano in South America; Adelaidean in Australia; and Beardmore in Antarctica.
The notion that Gondwana was assembled during the Late Precambrian from two older fragments along the Pan-African Mozambique Belt was first proposed in the early 1980s. [3] A decade later this continental collision was named the East African Orogeny, but it was also realised that this was not the simple bringing together of two halves.
Pannotia was centred on the South Pole, hence its name. Pannotia (from Greek: pan-, "all", -nótos, "south"; meaning "all southern land"), also known as the Vendian supercontinent, Greater Gondwana, and the Pan-African supercontinent, was a relatively short-lived Neoproterozoic supercontinent that formed at the end of the Precambrian during the Pan-African orogeny (650–500 Ma), during the ...
Gondwana has the potential to be quite the area of scientific discovery. The ancient mega-continent, according to leading theories, was once large enough to contain South America, Africa, India ...
Africa Damara orogeny.53 .5 Africa Kibaran orogeny: 1.4 1 Africa Eburnean orogeny: 2.2 2 Africa East African Orogeny.75 .55 Africa Mauritanide Orogeny.32 .27 Africa Mozambique Orogeny: 2.65 2.97 Africa Zambezi Orogeny.89 .53 Africa Napier orogeny: 4 Antarctica Rayner orogeny: 3.5 Antarctica Humboldt orogeny: 3 Antarctica Insel orogeny: 2.65 ...
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Around 550 Ma, near the boundary between the Ediacaran and Cambrian, the first group of cratons fused again with Amazonia, West Africa and the Rio de la Plata cratons [23] during the Pan-African orogeny, which caused the development of Gondwana. In a separate rifting event about 610 Ma, the Iapetus Ocean formed.