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Gondwana supremacy (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Pussyphobic to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The split of Gondwana has nothing to do with the asteroid that whiped out dinosaurs. It startet to split way before the impact. The asteroid hit the earth ~66 million years ago, but Gondwana already startet to split ~150 million years ago.

The continent split because of the drift of the tectonic plates

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Unrelated, but when I was a kid I thought China and Japan were a united land mass until WW2 when we nuked Japan, then it floated off into the ocean. This reminded me of that a little bit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, I know it started to drift because of the shift of the tectonic plates, but didn't know that the drift started happening before the asteroid impact. I thought the impact triggered the shift.

Thanks for the info 👍 ☺️.