Gondwanaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Sanskrit गोण्डवन (goṇḍavana, “Forest of Gondi”). The continent was named after the region in India by Austrian scientist Eduard Suess in 1861.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɡɑndˈwɑnə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡɒndˈwɑːnə/
• 韻: -ɑːnə

固有名詞

Gondwana

1. A region of central India.
2. (geology) A southern supercontinent, formed before Pangaea between 600 and 530 million years ago, that included most of the landmasses which make up today's continents of the Southern Hemisphere.

   Synonym: (dated) Gondwanaland

   • 1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 539:

     Gondwana began to break up some 135 million years ago, yet evidence of the original junction still exists: Cliffs and mesa-like mountains in the western Sahara consist of sandstone similar to that of Mount Roraima.

   • 2020, Tianfeng Wan, The Tectonics and Metallogenesis of Asia, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 113:

     At that time, the Gondwana supercontinent was located at the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere, developed amphibolite metamorphism and formed the united crystalline basement at about 510 Ma.

等位語

• Laurasia

派生語

• Gondwanaland
• Gondwanan

関連する語

• Gondwanalandic