Eduard Suess
Eduard Suess
1831-1914
Austrian professor of geology at the University of Vienna who laid the foundation for the field of structural geology. Suess suggested that moving landmasses cause earthquakes and that sea level had changed through time. He recognized similarities between fossils from South America, Africa, Australia, and India and proposed that these areas were once connected as a large super-continent he named Gondwana. Later geologists recognized that Gondwana included Antarctica.
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Gondwana , Gondwana A former supercontinent of the southern hemisphere from which South America, Africa, India, Australasia, and Antarctica are derived. Their e… Gondwanaland , Gondwanaland •and, band, bland, brand, expand, firsthand, gland, grand, hand, land, manned, misunderstand, offhand, rand, righthand, Samarkand, sand,… Isthmus , Isthmus
An isthmus is a narrow strip of land that connects two larger or wider sections of land. The isthmus of Panama, which connects South America… Sahulland , Sahulland The name often given to the tropical portion of the combined Australia–New Guinea land mass, as it existed at times of low sea level during… Dugongs , Dugong
Dugong dugon
phylum: Chordata
class: Mammalia
order: Sirenia
family: Dugongidae
status: Vulnerable, IUCN Endangered, ESA
range: Indian and Pac… Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand 1869–1948
Born on October 2, 1869, in the coastal town of Porbandar in the Gujarati-speaking…
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