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TLDR: Submerged continent found in the Indian ocean
- jevin 14y agoHello from Mauritius ! Any questions welcome.
- steve19 14y agoGive the time frame (600 million to 2 billion years since it sank) are there likely to be interesting fossils on the sea bed? What about oil?
- ComputerGuru 14y agoFlagged as blog spam. Entire post is literally three sentences long and links to a much better article from the journal Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/long-lost-continent-found-under-the-indian-ocean-1.12487 http://www.nature.com/news/long-lost-continent-found-under-t... See also other "lost" "continents": Zealandia [0] in the Pacific (near New Zealand, obviously), Sundaland [1] near the Malay islands, and the Kerguelen Plateau in the Indian west of Australia [2]. Interesting how these three are all very close to one another. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia_(continent) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia_(continent) 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundaland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundaland 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Plateau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Plateau
- ashokvarma2 14y agoWe need more of these tl;dr, circa(http://cir.ca/ http://cir.ca/) style news content