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From small in school or even in high school have taught us that this world we live is made up of 6 continents which I remind you to go at the same pace.
Europe, Asia, America, Africa, Antarctica and Oceania, form our world, since each one is a great miles of land, where billions of people make their daily life, but what if I tell you that there is a continent more ..
quite curious really good first we have to know that it is a continent itself,
a continent is each one of the great extensions in which the terrestrial surface is divided, separated from each other by the oceans.
Since you know it's a good continent, now let's look for continent number 7, better known as Zelandia, you've heard it sometime, well this is the name of a portion of continental mass on the coast of Australia, first discovered in 1995 by Bruce Luyendyk, a geophysicist at the University of California Santa Barbara, at that time it was believed that the submerged mass was a rocky terrain under New Zealand and New Caledonia, which were considered a chain of islands, but all change, since In 2016, a study called "Zealand: The Hidden Continent of the Earth," published in the journal of the United States Geological Society, concluded that the facts are very different from what we used to believe.
The scientists who carried out this study, gathered information from the last 10 years, they discovered that in fact this huge underwater plateau was a submerged continent, incredible no?
The density of the rocks in the mass of the earth, the differences in height above the ocean floor, the satellite scans,
all, the most important thing that New Zealand and New Caledonia have been only two large rocks all this time, are not islands as we thought, but two peaks that emerge from this great continental land.
The continent of Zealand separated from Oceania 60 to 85 million years ago, just as the continent we both had was part of a continent called Gondwana, until recently it was believed that the continent could not sink in this way in a single block and leaving only some parts that look out over the surface of the water, so you know zelandia has an area of 4,900,000 km, which is equivalent to about two thirds of Australia, but 94% of it is under water , amazing.
it sank after separating from Asia, 60-85 million years ago, and from Antarctica 130-185 million years ago.2 It was finally submerged approximately 23 million years ago3 4 and most of it is sunken under the Pacific Ocean.
who knows if we get a hidden continent maybe one day we will get the atlantida, I am Rennyer and good until a next blog.
