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Zealandia – pieces finally falling together for continent we didn't know we had 2017-02-21 03:47:03 Post No.
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Zealandia – pieces finally falling together for continent we didn't know we had
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/17/zealandia-pieces-finally-falling-together-for-long-overlooked-continent
>Zealandia – a new continent submerged in the southwest Pacific – is a step closer to being recognised, the authors of a new scientific paper claim.
>A paper published in GSA Today, the journal of the Geological Society of America, contends that the vast, continuous expanse of continental crust, which centres on New Zealand, is distinct enough to constitute a separate continent.
>The paper’s authors argue that the incremental way in which it came to light goes to show that even “the large and the obvious in natural science can be overlooked”.
>Zealandia covers nearly 5m square km, of which 94% is under water, and encompasses not only New Zealand but also New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, the Lord Howe Island group and Elizabeth and Middleton reefs.
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What's wrong with considering it as a party of Oceania?
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>>113612
AKA East Tasmainia
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>>113641
>Oceania
Look it up.
Oceania is a region. Not a geological formation.
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>>113612
I wonder if NZ is going to soon fall into the ocean.
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>>113612
continent or tectonic plate?
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>>113870
The region straddles the Australian and Pacific plates
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>>113612
Sick of fucking hearing of this 'new' continent . It's been known and taught of for years
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>kiwis trying this hard to seem seperate from aussie
cute tbh
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So are we going to pretend every island is a continent now too?
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>>114061
Read the article ffs
>The American geophysicist Bruce Luyendyk was the first to apply the name Zealandia to a south-west Pacific continent in 1995.
>Mortimer and his fellow co-authors from the GNS Science research institute and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand; the Service Géologique of New Caledonia; and the University of Sydney’s School of Geosciences contend that Zealandia has the necessary geological elements to be considered a continent.
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