All these are proving our puranic description of land form and life and that mankind had evolved in this land. Jambhu dweepa had been the centre of activity and there were layers of other land forms surrounding it. Indian landmass situated in the Jambhu dweepa moved towards north and collided with the Asian landmass giving rise to the formation of Himalayas 10 million years ago. The Puranic lore of Shiva Parvathy wedding attracting huge number of invitees that resulted in the ducking of the landmass under the Himalayas can be related to the initial impact on the landmass that kept pushing the Himalayas up. The Southern part of the landmass lifted up as a result according to puranas.
The exact description was that Vindhyas were rising as if to dwarf the Meru. Sage Agasthya was sent by Lord Shiva to restore balance. He caused the Vindhyas to stop growing and went to the South and made it even with the northern landmass. This is the story. But the derivations from this story are now being discovered as part of scientific research.
This story and the current discoveries show that India India India Africa and moved towards north. This started 100 million years ago.
The picture that we see in the internet is not accurate because it does not show the larger landmass that moved and collided in such a way that the mighty Himalayas had risen up.
The impact zone of this collision had been felt from North west India Burma Himalayas had risen up. So the landmass at that time must have had the floor of the Bay of Bengal in considerable mass to enable such a push up. (Read my old articles on this and how Bay of Bengal came into being)
The issue of interest for this post is that insects that are now seen in many parts of the world had been found in the Indian mass at a time when it had not collided with Asia . This discovery proposes the theory that the Indian land mass must been in the south and closer to Africa and Australia
The fossilized forms of life had traveled along with the land mass and are now seen at places away from the original climates where they could have thrived.
While these findings indicate a lively Indian mass about 100 million years go, the genetic studies reveal human life thriving in that place about a million years ago. Though the original movement is from east Africa , human population had indeed thrived over many 1000s of years in the Indian landmass only according to those studies. It was from India Africa . This also supports the idea of an extended Indian landmass being closer to Africa in those times.
If we look at the google earth, we can find the long mountain ranges from the 2 sides of South India submerged in the Indian ocean . On the east, the range goes upto Australia Madagascar
The discovery of ancient fauna and flora in the present Indian land mass is only a remnant. The sub merged area between the 2 undersea mountain ranges would have supported a large number of lives of different forms. Deep sea explorations and exploration of the submerged mountain ranges in the Indian Ocean are the need of the hour.
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Insects in Ancient Amber Reveal Unexpected India-Asia Ties
By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writerposted:
A 50 million-year-old spider trapped in amber. Credit: David Grimaldi/AMNH
A winged Psocoptera insect trapped in amber. Credit: David Grimaldi/AMNH
A coccid insect extracted from amber, magnified with a scanning electron microscope. Credit: University of Bonn
A cache of ancient insects trapped in amber reveals that the Indian subcontinent wasn't as isolated 50 million years ago as previously believed, according to a new study.
The find, 330 pounds (150 kilograms) of fossilized tree resin excavated from northern India, contains more than 700 preserved insects and spiders, as well as plant spores, leaf portions and small flowers. Geological evidence shows that the landmass had been drifting independently for about 100 million years at the time, but the organisms in the amber are closely related to other species found in northern Europe, Australia, New Guinea and tropical America, the researchers report online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
That means the fauna of India didn't evolve in isolation, said study researcher David Grimaldi, the curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the
"There must have been some connections between
Stepping stones
The resin is found in
Rust, Grimaldi and their colleagues then return the amber to the lab, where they painstakingly seek out the tiny insects, spiders and other arthropods inside. The preservation of the arthropods is particularly good in this amber, Rust said, meaning the researchers can dissolve the resin and extract whole preserved insects for study.
"This is really unusual," Rust said. "It's like if you would have a complete dinosaur."
What is now the Indian subcontinent broke away from
That could mean that
"Even though
Ancient forests
Also hidden in the amber were clues to the ecosystem in
"The evidence is beginning to accumulate that tropical forests are ancient," Grimaldi said. "They probably go back to right after the K-T boundary," between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods 65 million years ago, when non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.
The team plans to return to
"We're still discovering all sorts of cool stuff in this amber," Grimaldi said. "Every day."
