Scientists Say Theyve Discovered a Hidden Continent Under New Zealand

[malaise]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/scientists-say-they-ve-discovered-hidden-continent-under-new-zealand-n722796
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Scientists say they have identified an underwater continent two-thirds the size of Australia — and they are calling it Zealandia.

This newly proposed continent is about 1.74 million square miles in size and 94 percent submerged. But at its highest points, it protrudes above the ocean surface in the form of New Zealand and New Caledonia, according to a paper published in GSA Today, the journal of the Geological Society of America.
Image: An illustration shows what geologists are calling Zealandia, a continent two-thirds the size of Australia lurking beneath the waves in the southwest Pacific

The proposed recognition of the continent of Zealandia does not represent the discovery of a new land mass. Rather, the paper argues that the geological evidence suggests the land mass should be classified not as a collection of islands and fragments but as a bona fide continent.

"If we could pull the plug on the oceans, it would be clear to everyone we have mountain chains and a big, high-standing continent above the ocean crust," Nick Mortimer, a geologist at GNS Science in Dunedin, New Zealand, told Reuters.

Mortimer was the lead author of the paper, "Zealandia: Earth's Hidden Continent."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Except for an undersea chasm between Australia and Zealandia, they could be one continent. . . nt

[Mendocino]

9. They both are on the same tectonic

plate, the Indo-Australian . But what this new continental map shows a sizeable amount of land (submerged) to the SE of NZ, beyond what is considered the above plate. It intrudes into the Pacific plate, so either the older boundary map was wrong or this new "continent" is on two plates.

Exciting new discoveries

Edit: Just looked at a plate map and realized NZ itself is on two plates.

[awesomerwb]

2. Does one need a visa to go live there? n/t

[Chellee]

3. Just a snorkle.

[malaise]

4. Hehehehehehhe

[JI7]

5. any images of what it would be like without the ocean ?

[Achilleaze]

6. Who knew it would be Mu?

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Atlantis is next.

[Achilleaze]

7. Mu-nees deeply perturbed by cascade of repube lies & russian complicity

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Here the ancient Mu-nees are depicted as they discuss their mind-boggling pro-fessy that one day the ameriKan repubelicans would display utter hypocrisy & idiocy by worshiping a Draft-&-Tax-Dodging, Genital-Grabbing, serial-liar with sleazy casino-inspired 'family values.'

[Achilleaze]

8. Discuss amongst yourselves

Wiki:
"Mu is the name of a suggested lost continent whose concept and name were proposed by 19th-century traveler and writer Augustus Le Plongeon, who claimed that several ancient civilizations, such as those of Egypt and Mesoamerica, were created by refugees from Mu...

"...The existence of Mu was already being disputed in Le Plongeon's time. Today scientists dismiss the concept of Mu (and of other alleged lost continents such as Lemuria) as physically impossible, arguing that a continent can neither sink nor be destroyed in the short period of time required by this premise. Mu's existence is now considered to have no factual basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(lost_continent)