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Old 10-11-2023, 03:17   #1
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ARGOLAND [the Argo Abyssal Plain]

An Entire Continent Went Missing—But Scientists Have Found It Again
A continent [‘Argoland’] , the width of the U.S., has been missing for 155 million years.
Scientists have long puzzled whether this chunk of northwest Australia [the Argo Abyssal Plain] has been either floating somewhere unseen, resting on the ocean floor, or slowly fusing to the underbelly of a larger landmass.
Finally, after seven years of searching, Dutch researchers, at Utrecht University, have definitively located pieces of the landmass, within the vast jungles of Southeast Asia.[1]
More about ➥ https://www.atlasobscura.com/article...scover_science

[1]“Finding Argoland: Reconstructing a microcontinental archipelago from the SE Asian accretionary orogen” ~ by Eldert L. Advokaat et al
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• Gondwana-derived fragments and intervening oceanic remnants in SE Asia may represent Argoland.
• Argoland consisted of continental fragments and Triassic–Middle Jurassic oceanic basins.
• Argoland accreted to SE Asia in the mid-Cretaceous and broke off from Australia at ∼157 Ma. ...”
Open Access ➥ https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...769?via%3Dihub
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