Student World Atlas (Maailma atlas)
PANTHALASSIC
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This peculiar-to ou r eyes-a rrangeme nt of continents with and reco gni zable, and the continents, excep t for Australia
its unfamiliar oceans and seas , mountains and plains, and and Antarctica, were nearing th eir present latitudes. Within
peninsulas and islands reminds us that th e dinosaurs lived the last 65 million years, most contine n ts nestl ed unhur
in a far different landscape th an our own . As the last riedly into th eir current pos iti ons. However, th e Indian
dinosaurs receded into memory, the future Atlantic Ocean su b-co ntine nt "s printed" north, crashing into Asia and bull
and Mediterranean Sea were becomin g more su bs tan tial dozing up the Himalayas. earth 's loftiest mountain range.