2023-11-02 21:06:00
It is a major scientific discovery that relays Geo.fr. 155 million years ago, a continental mass broke away from Australia and drifted towards Southeast Asia. Called Argoland, this continent 4,800 kilometers long has remained untraceable until now. But fragments of this continental mass have just been discovered.
First clues had already been discovered during research in the ocean basin of the Argo abyssal plain. But no fragment of the continent had been found. “However, no continent of this magnitude has been found near these islands”, indicated Science & Vie in one of its articles in October 2023.
Today, Geo.fr reports that scientists have found traces of this continent buried beneath some countries in Southwest Asia, including Indonesia and Burma. “We did not lose a continent, it was just already a very large and fragmented whole,” explains one of the researchers, Eldert Avokaat.
As for the disintegration of Argoland, it can be explained by the contact of tectonic forces, which extended the continental mass and distanced it from the rest of the Australian continent.
Note that according to the researcher, this discovery might “shed light on the past climate of the region, which would have cooled when the oceans formed between the shreds of Argoland”.
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