Get to know Gondwana better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Gondwana meaning
- A region of central India.
- A southern supercontinent, formed before Pangaea between 600 and 530 million years ago, that included most of the landmasses which make up today's continents of the Southern Hemisphere.
Using Gondwana
- The main meaning on this page is: A region of central India. | A southern supercontinent, formed before Pangaea between 600 and 530 million years ago, that included most of the landmasses which make up today's continents of the Southern Hemisphere.
- In the example corpus, gondwana often appears in combinations such as: and gondwana, of gondwana, the gondwana.
Context around Gondwana
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gondwana
- In this selection, "gondwana" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, period, understanding, history, collection, gantantra and rainforests stand out and add context to how "gondwana" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the period gondwana was at and 35 and gondwana gantantra party. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gondwana" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gondwana
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Formation began around 85 Myr ago during the splitting of Gondwana. (11 words)
The latest evidence is that diversified back in Gondwana some 124 million years ago. (14 words)
Its west coast was formed when Africa broke off from Gondwana around 165 million years ago. (16 words)
Resembling a spaceship that has touched down on a rocky outcrop in one of the driest places on earth, this pod-shaped villa is one of just a handful of accommodation options in the private Gondwana Collection Namibia in the Namib Desert. (42 words)
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Union Minister of State for Food Processing and Jal Shakti Prahlad Patel who was traveling in the train got angry when the bed sheets and cabin were found dirty in Gondwana Express that reached Jabalpur from Hazrat Nizamuddin. (41 words)
Mannfred Goldbeck, chairman of the Namibia Wild Horses Foundation, told Gondwana Collection in November last year: "The Foundation is waiting anxiously for the Ministry of Environment and Tourism to respond to our request for custodianship of the horses. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Understanding Gondwana’s History: Gondwana, a supercontinent that existed about 180 million years ago, was a massive landmass that later fragmented to form modern continents including South America, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Union Minister of State for Food Processing and Jal Shakti Prahlad Patel who was traveling in the train got angry when the bed sheets and cabin were found dirty in Gondwana Express that reached Jabalpur from Hazrat Nizamuddin.
Formation began around 85 Myr ago during the splitting of Gondwana.
Resembling a spaceship that has touched down on a rocky outcrop in one of the driest places on earth, this pod-shaped villa is one of just a handful of accommodation options in the private Gondwana Collection Namibia in the Namib Desert.
Ambedkar, a grandson of Dr BR Ambedkar, also announced two candidates from the VBA's alliance partners Bharat Adivasi Party (BAP) and Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP).
The BJP had registered a landslide victory in the last year's state polls, winning 54 seats out of 90 in the State while the Congress had won 35 and Gondwana Gantantra Party bagged one seat.
World heritage-listed Gondwana rainforests, the Blue Mountains, alpine regions, eastern Gippsland and Kangaroo Island had all been badly hit by bushfires.
Mannfred Goldbeck, chairman of the Namibia Wild Horses Foundation, told Gondwana Collection in November last year: "The Foundation is waiting anxiously for the Ministry of Environment and Tourism to respond to our request for custodianship of the horses.
Mr Larkin is a member of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia community advisory committee, which wrote to Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley on November 1 expressing its concern at the impact of climate change on the rare rainforests.
The latest evidence is that diversified back in Gondwana some 124 million years ago.
The Gondwana Collection, a private tourism operator in Namibia, has released a video featuring the southern African nation’s wildlife and natural beauty.
Although generally thought to be originally part of the Gondwana southern hemisphere supercontinent, recent research suggests that it might have detached from the South East Asia margin.
By the beginning of the Jurassic, the supercontinent Pangaea had begun rifting into two landmasses, Laurasia to the north and Gondwana to the south.
By the end of the period, Gondwana was at the south pole, and early North America had collided with Europe, closing the Atlantic Ocean.
By the end of the period, Gondwana was at the south pole, early North America had collided with Europe, closing the Atlantic Ocean.
During the Silurian, Gondwana continued a slow southward drift to high southern latitudes, but there is evidence that the Silurian icecaps were less extensive than those of the late Ordovician glaciation.
During this time, there are four continents: Gondwana (Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, India), Laurentia (North America with parts of Europe), Baltica (the rest of Europe), and Siberia (Northern Asia).
Glaciation of Africa resulted in a major drop in sea level, killing off all life that staked a claim along coastal Gondwana.
Gondwana began to break up 140 million years ago (MYA); 50 MYA Australia separated from Antarctica and was relatively isolated until the collision of the Indo-Australian Plate with Asia in the Miocene era 5.3 MYA.
Its west coast was formed when Africa broke off from Gondwana around 165 million years ago.
Common combinations with gondwana
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and gondwana 7×
- of gondwana 4×
- the gondwana 4×
- gondwana collection 3×
- gondwana to 3×
- supercontinent gondwana 3×
- in gondwana 2×
- gondwana gantantra 2×
- gondwana rainforests 2×
- period gondwana 2×