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 Why India drifted fast from Gondwanaland? [1]

india has thin land roots. That's why it moved about five times faster and further away than other landmasses when it broke apart from its mother supercontinent

Publication Date: 
29/11/2007
Maureen Nandini Mitra [2]
Down to Earth [3]
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Geology [4], Research [5], Antarctica [6], India [7]
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