The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: rangerrebew on October 20, 2017, 11:30:46 am
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Ancient, lost, mountains in the Karoo reveals the secrets of massive extinction event
Millions of years ago, a mountain range that would have dwarfed the Andes mountains in South America, stretched over what is currently the southern-most tip of Africa.
Remnants of these mountains – called the Gondwanides, after the massive supercontinent, Gondwana over which it stretched – once spanned the southern continents of South America, Antarctica, South Africa and Australia, and parts of it now form the mountains near Cape Town in South Africa.
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/10/ancient-lost-mountains-karoo-reveals-secrets-massive-extinction-event/117133