A map of a ‘lost’ continent that appeared 23 million years later is finally published!

Mar 26, 2021 12:30 PM EDT

Researchers are mapping Zealand’s strange “lost” continent for the first time. The vast ocean in the Pacific Ocean disappeared 23 million years ago under the waves – and has never been explored. It was originally part of the Gondwana (supercontinent), formed by continents present in the southern hemisphere..

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The Unknown Province

Zealand is six times larger than Madagascar, covering 1.9 million square miles, the next largest continental grain. It stretches from west to Kenn Platform off the east coast of Australia, and from southern New Zealand north to New Caledonia. About 94 per cent of the land is underwater

The currently unknown continent is partially mapped as a result of a deep-water mapping mission led by the University of Queensland. Lead researcher Dr. Derya Gürer spent 28 days at sea on the Falkor research vessel at the Schmidt Ocean Institute, exploring the northwestern edge of the continent.

“We are just beginning to discover the mysteries of Zealand,” Dr Derya explained.
“It has been a mystery in plain sight so far and it is impossible to investigate.”

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Bathymetric Map

Radar scans carried out by the group examined the shape of the narrow relationship between the Coral Seas and Tasman in the Cato Trough area – the tiny corridor between New Zealand and Australia. In total, they have provided 14.00 square miles of topographical evidence for the Seabed 2030 program.

The program aims to create a publicly accessible bathymetric map to assess the depth of the planet’s ocean depths by 2030. The seabed is full of indicators for understanding the complex geological history of both large-scale plates. terrestrial Zealand and Australia, Dr Derya explained.

These data also advance our knowledge of the complex design of the crust between the blades of Zealand and Australia. It is believed to have contained a small piece of continent, or microcontinents, extracted from Australia, and previously in supernatural Gondwana.

An Supercontinent

Between 85 and 79 million years ago Zealand is thought to have left Gondwana. The aristocracy included what is in present-day Australia, New Zealand, South America, the Indian subcontinent, Antarctica, Arabia, and Africa. New Zealand is believed to have been flooded in water, about 23 million years ago.

Experts used up to 20 years of data collection to make the case for the flooded land to be a continent. Their actions have been hampered by the fact that most of them are invisible beneath the waves. Zealandia was granted continental status in 2017 and then a paper was published in the GSA Today Journal.

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Mountains hidden beneath the earth’s crust

On record, scientists strongly argued that the land was a different geology that met all the standards applied to continents. other world. Those involved were elevations over the surrounding area, specific geology, a well-defined area, and a firmer crust than was found on the ocean floor.

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