Fragments of ancient continent buried under Indian Ocean

[dipsydoodle]

Fragments of an ancient continent are buried beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, a study suggests.

Researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 million years ago.

The strip of land, which scientists have called Mauritia, eventually fragmented and vanished beneath the waves as the modern world started to take shape.

The study is published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21551149

A Precambrian microcontinent in the Indian Ocean http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1736.html

[GRENADE]

1. 2,000 to 85,000,000

that's one hell of a window...but interesting none the less.

n/t

[SidDithers]

2. Wonder if it was supposed to be 2,000 million and 85 million...

still a big window, but makes more sense that way. They're talking geologic times.

Sid

[BlueStreak]

3. It is definitely the 2B era, not 2K

But even that doesn't make much sense if we assume the earth is about 4.5B years old and during that time, a supercontinent has formed and fragmented TWICE, which has been the prevailing theory.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Your figures are those which are used in the Nature paper on the subject.

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[libodem]

4. Heck

I thought maybe they found Atlantis. Still waiting....