From the breakup of Pangea, through its long journey as part of Gondwana, to becoming the heart of Asia, Prof. Jeffrey Wilson Mantilla, a leading palaeontologist from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA, explains how the continental drift of the Indian Plate shaped the evolution and distribution of India’s flora and fauna. #GeologicalSurveyofIndia #GeoPedia #Geologykefunde #Geology #Paleontology #ContinentalDrift #IndiaGeology | Geological Survey of India

Breakup of Super Continent 'Pangaea' and Continental Drift This is a special "flat earth" version of the drift of the continents, starting from the breakup of the super-continent Pangea about 200 million years ago. The continents were hand flattened by Atwater such that they are recognizable and they fit together in both their Pangean and present-day configurations Drawn and animated in Photoshop, Morph, and FinalCut by Tanya Atwater (earlier versions by Ian MacMillan and Grace Giles using Flash