The Giant Continent Forms
Abstract At the start of this period Gondwana and Laurasia had just started to collide; by the end of it, the giant continent of Pangaea stretched from the South Pole to near the North Pole with the Palaeo-Tethys Sea on its east-ern side, almost entirely enclosed by ‘continents’ that have come to be...
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Oxford University PressOxford
2003
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198525905.003.0007 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52320361/isbn-9780198525905-book-part-7.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract At the start of this period Gondwana and Laurasia had just started to collide; by the end of it, the giant continent of Pangaea stretched from the South Pole to near the North Pole with the Palaeo-Tethys Sea on its east-ern side, almost entirely enclosed by ‘continents’ that have come to be parts of China and south-east Asia. In the tropical regions, around the Palaeo-Tethys Sea there were, particularly in the Carboniferous period, extensive forested swamps, now represented by deposits of coal, oil and gas; later in the Permian period coal was deposited further away from the equator. In the early Carboniferous an ice sheet formed over the southern portion of Gondwanaland which became increasingly more extensive until the late Permian. |
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