Abstract
Stratigraphic evidence in Thailand and Malaya, and the fit of the South-East Asia sub-continent with India, suggest that they were once joined. It follows that, like India, South-East Asia must have drifted north to collide with mainland Asia after the break-up of Gondwanaland.
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RIDD, M. South-East Asia as a Part of Gondwanaland. Nature 234, 531–533 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234531a0
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