Zealandia, Giant Landmass under New Zealand, Could Be Planet Earth’s 8th Continent

Zealandia shown on a map with the other seven continents. Map: GNS Science

Zealandia, an enormous landmass in the Southwest Pacific Ocean whose highest mountains are the islands of New Zealand and New Caledonia, could be recognized as the Earth’s 8th continent. (more…)

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An ancient continent that was once sandwiched between India and Madagascar now lies scattered on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

The first clues to the continent’s existence came when some parts of the Indian Ocean were found to have stronger gravitational fields than others, indicating thicker crusts. One theory was that chunks of land had sunk and become attached to the ocean crust below.

Mauritius was one place with a powerful gravitational pull. In 2013, Lewis Ashwal at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and his colleagues proposed that the volcanic island was sitting on a piece of old, sunken continent.

Although Mauritius is only 8 million years old, some zircon crystals on the island’s beaches are almost 2 billion years old. Volcanic eruptions may have ejected the zircon from ancient rock below.

Now, Ashwal and his team have found zircon crystals in Mauritius that are up to 3 billion years old. Through detailed analyses they have reconstructed the geological history of the lost continent, which they named Mauritia.

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Scientists discover a lost continent beneath the Indian ocean, name it Mauritia

Scientists have confirmed the existence of a continent that is now “lost” below the surface of the Earth. The newly discovered continent has been named as Mauritia, after the Indian Islands of Mauritius, which is a fragment of the lost continent.

There were two crucial pieces of evidence that pointed to the discovery: Pieces of ancient zircon crystals that were billions of years old and found in…