"A new and exciting piece of research from IISc has confirmed what has long been believed: that India was part of a supercontinent that later broke away into smaller physical entities and transformed into small continents and countries as we know them now"
Geological research conducted recently by assistant professor Sanjeev Krishnan of the Centre for Earth Sciences, IISc, has revealed that certain rock crusts or granulites in Sri Lanka, southern India and Madagascar have properties that demonstrate India as being part of a supercontinent.
“The ancient supercontinent of Gondwana once consisted of what are now the smaller continents of South America, Africa, Madagascar, southern India, Sri Lanka, Antarctica and Australia. Our research reveals that massive tectonic activity had occurred 600 million years ago and had brought together all the earth formations into a supercontinent,”.
Krishnan deduced the tectonic activity from the massive underground temperatures rock crusts in Sri Lanka, parts of Antarctica and southern India were exposed to and withstood over a period of 500 million years. The high temperatures, especially at the lower crust of the rocks, reveal the chemical composition of the crusts from which the tectonic activity has been deduced. These crusts/rocks, which go back 500 million years ago, are now visible in the form of granules and crust deposits on the surface.
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