Scientists took samples from the hidden eighth continent on Earth

in science •  7 years ago 

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Scientists spent two months to collect samples from the sunken land in the Pacific known as the continents Zealand. As a result, now we can get new information about everything that has happened there since draining time - from then existing forms of life to climatic changes on the continent, which led to its sinking.

Tens of millions of years of huge land mass that is now called Zealand was almost completely submerged below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. They have penetrated probe into the ocean floor at a depth of 1219 meters, the researchers were able to assemble a large amount of sediment samples will reveal the secrets of the geological processes that are taking place in the region 70 million years ago.


source: Science Alert

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