Word: gondwanaland
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...Does the guard spend the time unzipping every zipper and feeling through every nook and cranny of Dartboard’s bag? Of course not: There’s already a line forming behind Dartboard and a quick glance will do. Dartboard could have had the lost continent of Gondwanaland hidden under his laptop and Security Service Incorporated’s trained professional would have been none the wiser...
Still, to anyone who frequents Lavietes, the greatest moments must have seemed dishearteningly distant. The last team the Crimson faced in the NCAA tournament was NYU, almost 60 years ago. It might as well have been the University of Gondwanaland...
What changed? The answer, many scientists believe, lies in the breakup of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwanaland, to which Antarctica once belonged. For tens of millions of years, Antarctica was the centerpiece of Gondwanaland, and its winds, like those of then contiguous Australia and South America, were warmed by currents flowing down from the equator. But around 25 million years ago, after the other continents had pulled away, a new current was created--one that circled endlessly round the Southern Ocean, sealing Antarctica off from tropical influence...
...reading how the Himalayas were formed, when the Indian plate moved up in onto Gondwanaland," Pilot says. "I was just fascinated, and I had to read the whole thing...
...just above the bedrock, the geologists deduced that 150 to 200 million years ago, the Falkland plateau was dry land in a climate similar to that of the Mediterranean today. That evidence fitted in with earlier suggestions by other geologists that there had once been an inland sea in Gondwanaland similar to the Mediterranean and bounded by what are now South America, Africa and Antarctica. Then, as the continents began to separate, the area round the ancient sea gradually sank, reached its present depth about 80 million years ago, and remained hidden until the spring voyage of the Glomar Challenger...