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## Abstract **Aim** To present an up to date account of the Mesozoic history of India and its relationship to the other Gondwana continents and to Eurasia. **Location** Continents surrounding the Western Indian Ocean. **Methods** Utilization of recent evidence of continental relationships based upon research in stratigraphy, palaeomagnetism, palaeontology, and contemporary biotas. **Results** The physical data revealed a sequence of events as India moved northward: (1) India–Madagascar rifted from east Africa 158–160 Ma (million years ago), (2) India–Madagascar from Antarctica __c.__ 130 Ma, (3) India–Seychelles from Madagascar 84–96 Ma, (4) India from Seychelles 65 Ma, (5) India began collision with Eurasia 55–65 Ma and (6) final suturing took place __c.__ 42–55 Ma. However, data from fossil and contemporary faunas indicate that, throughout the late Cretaceous, India maintained exchanges with adjacent lands. There is an absence in the fossil record of peculiar animals and plants that should have evolved, had India undergone an extended period of isolation just before its contact with Eurasia. **Main conclusions** The depiction of India in late Cretaceous as an isolated continent i

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Author

John C. Briggs

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley; JSTOR (ISSN 0305-0270)

Published

2003

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)