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How did Antarctica become the desolate, ice-cloaked continent we know today? Hundreds of millions of years ago, Antarctica was part of a much bigger continent. Dubbed “Gondwana” or “Gondwanaland” by the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess, different parts of the continent broke away and gradually moved....
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Oxford University Press
2019
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190641320.003.0001 |
| Summary: | How did Antarctica become the desolate, ice-cloaked continent we know today? Hundreds of millions of years ago, Antarctica was part of a much bigger continent. Dubbed “Gondwana” or “Gondwanaland” by the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess, different parts of the continent broke away and gradually moved... |
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