INDIA WAS ONCE AN ISLAND

INDIA WAS ONCE AN ISLAND
India was once a continent. More than 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth,
most of what is now India was an island.
It had broken off from an ancient supercontinent referred to as Gondwanaland by paleogeographers
(named after Gondwana, a forested area of central India), and was moving slowly northwards.
About 50 million years ago, dinosaurs by now extinct, the India continental plate collided with
Asia, buckling the coastal area of both continents and creating the Himalayas - the world's
youngest major mountain range - and, of course, the highest.
Evidence of this ancient history is provided by fossilised sea shells that can still be found
high in the mountains. The plate on which the subcontinent rests continues to press slowly
northwards, and is the reason why the height of Mount Everest increases slightly every year.

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