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  1. 4/
    Key topics discussed in this deep dive:

    • The Tropical Past: We rewind the clock 500 million years to the Cambrian era, when Antarctica was a core part of the supercontinent #Gondwanaland. Positioned at the equator and surrounded by warm tropical seas, the continent's geology still holds irrefutable evidence of this era, including massive coal deposits and fossils of ferns, tropical sponges, and beech trees.

    youtu.be/41niL0hE38A

    #podcast
    #Antarctica
    #Antarctic
    #history
    #climate

  2. thanks to maps like this I often want to think of South America and Africa as "North Gondwanaland" but actually apparently they are "West Gondwanaland"?
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana

    #paleogeography
    #gondwana
    #gondwanaland

  3. Sydney’s 90m-year-old climbing #galaxias fish may have been wiped out by school building works

    The species can climb waterfalls and reaches back to #Gondwanaland – but there are fears #polluted runoff has proven fatal

    theguardian.com/environment/20

  4. Trilobites rise from the ashes to reveal ancient map
    phys.org/news/2023-11-trilobit

    #Trilobites of #Thailand's #Cambrian#Ordovician Tarutao Group and their geological setting onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

    "During the trilobites' lifetime, this region was on the outer margins of #Gondwanaland, an ancient #supercontinent that included Africa, India, Australia, South America, and Antarctica."

  5. Trilobites rise from the ashes to reveal ancient map
    phys.org/news/2023-11-trilobit

    #Trilobites of #Thailand's #Cambrian#Ordovician Tarutao Group and their geological setting onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

    "During the trilobites' lifetime, this region was on the outer margins of #Gondwanaland, an ancient #supercontinent that included Africa, India, Australia, South America, and Antarctica."

  6. Trilobites rise from the ashes to reveal ancient map
    phys.org/news/2023-11-trilobit

    #Trilobites of #Thailand's #Cambrian#Ordovician Tarutao Group and their geological setting onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

    "During the trilobites' lifetime, this region was on the outer margins of #Gondwanaland, an ancient #supercontinent that included Africa, India, Australia, South America, and Antarctica."

  7. Trilobites rise from the ashes to reveal ancient map
    phys.org/news/2023-11-trilobit

    #Trilobites of #Thailand's #Cambrian#Ordovician Tarutao Group and their geological setting onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

    "During the trilobites' lifetime, this region was on the outer margins of #Gondwanaland, an ancient #supercontinent that included Africa, India, Australia, South America, and Antarctica."

  8. Trilobites rise from the ashes to reveal ancient map
    phys.org/news/2023-11-trilobit

    #Trilobites of #Thailand's #Cambrian#Ordovician Tarutao Group and their geological setting onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

    "During the trilobites' lifetime, this region was on the outer margins of #Gondwanaland, an ancient #supercontinent that included Africa, India, Australia, South America, and Antarctica."