https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLahVJNnoZ4
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:18 (five years ago) link
big fan of the way india careens into the belly of asia
(it's going back in time at the start)
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
http://eatrio.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/7.-Pangea_continents_and_oceans.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:22 (five years ago) link
oh ffs i spelt the title wrong: GONDWANALAND( so named for the region of the GONDS)
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
global Caribbean climate, no ice at the poles iirc - every day is a holiday, if you don't get eaten fellow mammals!
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:25 (five years ago) link
every day is eat-an-egg day if yr a mammal, this is science fact
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/7d/9e/f87d9eb3120beb96e4e7f06b19aa2fef.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:28 (five years ago) link
Map is of Pangaea not Gondwanaland!
We need a poll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supercontinents
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:29 (five years ago) link
i know! -- but yes i shd have specified and labelled
the thread is for general supercontinental lore obv
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link
they do say that upper achill was once separate entirely to lower achill and they were only joined after a particularly rambunctious hacky cup committee meeting in 57 but the roads money poured in after that
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:35 (five years ago) link
the tweezozoic era: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/500/0*66bX92aRVg7Ep63l.png
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:35 (five years ago) link
Kenorland is a "one-piece" alternative to Superia, Vaalbara, and Sclavia - sounds stylish.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:36 (five years ago) link
bloody one super-continent eras, you miss one and then have to wait another 250 million years for the next one!
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link
this is a diagram from cardiff university explaining why supercontinents break up:
https://cardiff.imgix.net/__data/assets/image/0005/896000/20170822-Breaking-supercontinents.JPG?w=570&h=321&fit=crop&q=60&auto=format
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link
here is an uncropped version of it: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/image/0005/896000/20170822-Breaking-supercontinents.JPG
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
god knows what the global weather will be like when Gondwana 2/novopangea/pangea ultima has happened but iirc the UK will be positioned well into the Arctic Circle by then.
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:46 (five years ago) link
of course there had to be some middle aged looking Nu metal type band called Gondwana.
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
i think miles hoovered up most of the supercontinental nominalism
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:48 (five years ago) link
gondwana is a chilean reggae band fronted by i-locks labbé :D
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:50 (five years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/iRHzwXaFzgo5c0TjogRwEXfu7fg=/fit-in/600x626/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11883732-1524071605-1064.jpeg.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:58 (five years ago) link
not too far away from that, is this 'Foetus does library music' project :
https://www.discogs.com/Steroid-Maximus-Gondwanaland/release/137808
― mark e, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
While probably not a supercontinent, one can argue that Ur was a supercontinent for its time.
― mick signals, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
xp
oh my, just came to paste the EXACT same thing here
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
the 'supercontinent for its time' thing
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
Definitely silly enough to post twice. Every geologic era gets the supercontinent it deserves.
― mick signals, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
the drifting microcontinent Avalonia is a curious thing, proto Eire/UK but with volcanoes and weather and still carrying parts of Canada and New York.
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
probably getting my timezones mixed up here and wondering if this thread is snubbing Laurasia?
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
Black Comedy is here to 'Make Gondwana Great Again'!The first 3 episodes of #ABCBlackComedy season 3 are now available on iview. #FakeNews #RealComedy pic.twitter.com/fE6sMCTpk5— ABC Indigenous (@ABCIndigenous) October 5, 2018
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link
of course there had to be some middle aged looking Nu metal type band called Gondwana.the band Gondwanaland have been going since 1982, I’d expect Charlie McMahon is looking a bit older than middle-aged by now
― My Gig: The Thin Beast (sic), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
omg this is a gorgeous paragraph:
Very thick sections of mostly submarine mafic, and subordinate ultramafic, volcanic rocks, and mostly younger subaerial and submarine felsic volcanic rocks and sediments were oppressed into complex synforms between rising young domiform felsic batholiths mobilized by hydrous partial melting in the lower crust. Upper-crust granite-and-greenstone terrains underwent moderate regional shortening, decoupled from the lower crust, during compositional inversion accompanying doming, but cratonization soon followed. Tonalitic basement is preserved beneath some greenstone sections but supracrustal rocks commonly give way downward to correlative or younger plutonic rocks... Mantle plumes probably did not yet exist, and developing continents were concentrated in cool regions. Hot-region upper mantle was partly molten, and voluminous magmas, mostly ultramafic, erupted through many ephemeral submarine vents and rifts focussed at the thinnest crust.... Surviving Archean crust is from regions of cooler, and more depleted, mantle, wherein greater stability permitted uncommonly thick volcanic accumulations from which voluminous partial-melt, low-density felsic rocks could be generated.
(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craton )
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 10:15 (five years ago) link
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. But to be a rising young domiform felsic batholith was very heaven!
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link
Gondwanaland in the '80s, and Charlie McMahon in 2008 with an insulation salesman
http://www.charliemcmahon.com/photogallery/tourphotos/slides/www.CharlieMcMahon.com_Gondwana_Land_Band_01.jpg
http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Peter+Garrett+Charlie+McMahon+Screen+Music+4WHno6IwcJWl.jpg
― My Gig: The Thin Beast (sic), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
In tweezozoic eras, most of the supercontinent was uninhabitable, dry scorching rock. If the supercontinent happens to move over a pole, its snowball Earth, with nothing going on, biologically.
Whether Vaalbara, Ur, Kenorland, Columbia, Rodinia, Pannotia or Pangaea, interiors of supercontinents are lousy places for the inhabitants (only in the last 2, the first 5 had no macroscopic life). Hopefully Earth life will escape its planetary confines before Neopangaea/Pangaea Proxima some 250 my in the future. Beyond that, things look rather difficult for multicellular life as solar luminance continues its inexorable increase and the carbon cycle kills all autotrophs. Life has maybe one more supercontinent cycle after that. The deep sea reduced sulfur biomes and deep rock radiation eaters have another half billion years before the planet is sterilized.
― godless hippie skank (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
meanwhile this is soothing:
A radical map puts the oceans not land at the Center of Planet Earth (1942) https://t.co/LCdF0r0Eqz @openculture pic.twitter.com/OqPhUv3spj— Beautiful Maps (@BeautifulMaps) October 10, 2018
― mark s, Thursday, 11 October 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
Gondwater
― nickn, Thursday, 11 October 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
http://www.perkinselearning.org/sites/elearning.perkinsdev1.org/files/styles/node_highlighted_image/public/25.png?itok=t-A3kOge
― mark s, Friday, 12 October 2018 10:07 (five years ago) link
you got Stephen Kinnock round your yard or wot?
― calzino, Friday, 12 October 2018 10:09 (five years ago) link
he just won't leave
― mark s, Friday, 12 October 2018 10:14 (five years ago) link