Found: 5Mn SqKm Big World's 8th Continent

    • Indiatimes
    • Publish Date: Feb 17 2017 3:54PM
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    • Updated Date: Feb 17 2017 3:57PM
Found: 5Mn SqKm Big World's 8th Continent

Zealandia is 4.9 million square kilometres big and with this, it would be world's youngest and smallest continent...

The world is surviving on new discoveries and findings. If we ever stopped learning about the world we are living in, we'd miss so much of this beautiful nature...

In a recent event, scientists say they have identified a new continent and called it Zealandia.

 

In a paper submitted by a team of 11 geologists, a proposal has been made that a region of the Pacific Ocean located in the east of Australia and somewhat including New Zealand and New Caledonia should be considered a continent in its own right.

Geographically speaking, there are currently six recognised continents: Africa Antarctica, Australia, Eurasia, North America, and South America. Eurasia is the geographical landmass that includes Europe and Asia.  

Zealandia will also be the most submerged' of the continents, with 94 percent of the landmass submerged in water, the geologists wrote.

The paper also spoke about a lot of other things like the title, that roughly boils down to 'Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent,'

Their argument stood concrete as they believe that Zealandia has all the necessary attributes to be considered as a continent - 'high elevation relative to regions floored by oceanic crust,' as well as the presence of three types of rocks (igneous, or volcanic; metamorphic, or created by heat and pressure; and sedimentary, or created by erosion), thicker, less dense crust than the surrounding ocean floor, and an area large enough to distinguish it from the category of microcontinent. 

'The scientific value of classifying Zealandia as a continent is much more than just an extra name on a list,' the scientists wrote. 

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