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India: Fastest Continent Because Of Thinnest Lithosphere

 India’s lithosphere is only half as thick as others which is the reason for its high speed collision with Eurasia. Fifty million years ago the Indian sub-continent collided with the enormous Eurasian continent with a velocity of about 20 cm/year. With such a high velocity India was the fastest of the former parts of Gondwanaland, […]