this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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I don't understand.
They used to be together, before the asteroid hit that wiped out the dinosaurs. Then, the continents split.
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
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
Yeah, I know it started to drift because of the shiftbof 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 👍 ☺️.