• 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      23·
      1 year ago

      They used to be together, before the asteroid hit that wiped out the dinosaurs. Then, the continents split.

      • SchoopDaWhoop@feddit.de
        10·
        1 year ago

        The split of Gondwana has nothing to do with the asteroid that whiped out dinosaurs. It startet to split way before the impact. The asteroid hit the earth ~66 million years ago, but Gondwana already startet to split ~150 million years ago.

        The continent split because of the drift of the tectonic plates

        • Leyla :)@lemmy.fmhy.ml
          4·
          1 year ago

          Unrelated, but when I was a kid I thought China and Japan were a united land mass until WW2 when we nuked Japan, then it floated off into the ocean. This reminded me of that a little bit

        • 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml
          3·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, I know it started to drift because of the shift of the tectonic plates, but didn’t know that the drift started happening before the asteroid impact. I thought the impact triggered the shift.

          Thanks for the info 👍 ☺️.