Word: gondwanaland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earth causes heat to be stored there until the sub-crust melts. The continental masses sink deeper into this dense, viscous pool, which in turn moves sideways, bulging and rifting ocean floors, allowing heat to escape. Then the cycle begins again. Wegener of Germany proposed that two great continents, Gondwanaland in the Southern Hemisphere and Eurasia in the Northern, cracked and sundered, slid like cakes of ice over the hot sub-crustal pool to form the present continents. Evidence: the coastlines of Western Europe and Africa and those of Eastern, North and South America almost fit like jigsaw puzzle pieces...
First Continents, More than 100,000,000 years ago the hideous, ungainly reptiles which were then the lords of life roamed two vast continents, ''Gondwanaland" in the southern hemisphere, "Laurasia" in the northern. A globe-girdling ocean, the "Tethys Deep," divided them. Mighty Gondwanaland shuddered, cracked and sundered. Its fragments drifted to form South America. Africa. Australia, Peninsular India, Madagascar. Mighty Laurasia similarly broke to form North America and Eurasia...
...water. So much alike are these records at corresponding stages, urged Dr. Du Toit, that they must have been deposited in one undivided land. But the geological record of the southern hemisphere as a whole is utterly different from that of the northern-which would show that mighty Gondwanaland and mighty Laurasia were divided by some such mighty barrier as the "Tethys Deep...