Southeast Asia a Part of Gondwanaland?: Reply

MY suggestion1 that southeast Asia may once have been part of Gondwanaland was based on: first, the stratigraphic evidence that a cratonic area lay to the west of the Thai-Malay Peninsula in the Palaeozoic; and, second, on the fit of southeast Asia with the east coast of India. I cited a number of supporting lines of evidence and it is mostly these to which Stauffer and Gobbett2 have raised their objections. On examining their objections it emerges that these are not as serious as they believe.