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Indo-Australian Stratigraphy and the Configuration and Dispersal of Gondwanaland

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India and Australia are reassembled in Gondwanaland from stratigraphic evidence with their northern margins facing Tethys and their southern margins within the interior. A similar reconstruction of all Gondwanaland entails insignificant reorientation of constituent continents, and is consistent with a pattern of continental dispersal indicated by the gross geology of the Indian Ocean.

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VEEVERS, J., JONES, J. & TALENT, J. Indo-Australian Stratigraphy and the Configuration and Dispersal of Gondwanaland. Nature 229, 383–388 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229383a0

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