Fragments of ancient continent buried under Indian Ocean

[Jazzy]

Fragments of an ancient continent are buried beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, a study suggests.



Researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 million years ago.



The strip of land, which scientists have called Mauritia, eventually fragmented and vanished beneath the waves as the modern world started to take shape.



The study is published in the journal Nature Geoscience.



Supercontinent



Until about 750 million years ago, the Earth's landmass was gathered into a vast single continent called Rodinia.



And although they are now separated by thousands of kilometres of ocean, India was once located next to Madagascar.



Now researchers believe they have found evidence of a sliver of continent - known as a microcontinent - that was once tucked between the two.

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I find things like this very interesting. Hope you do too.

 

[DrLeftover]

Yes ma'am, I find it all fascinating.





This simply confirms the Tamil legend of Lemuria that I mentioned in the Atlantis article:

Almost every culture of any significant age talks about a city or entire country that vanished beneath the waves. Case in point the ancient Tamil legend that became Lemuria when a Western science writer needed to explain how animals in Madagascar could be similar to ones in India. Maps of the floor of the ocean reveal a substantial volcanic 'seamount' called the Kerguelen Plateau in the south central Indian Ocean around the Heard Islands near Antarctica which sank during the expansion of the Indian Ocean some twenty million years ago. Most likely, it was never above the surface even during the height of the most recent ice ages, and even if it was, it is thousands and thousands of miles from anything, and only a few degrees north of the Antarctic Circle. So if it were Atlantis, they had lousy weather.

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