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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-knew-we-put-it-somewhere dept.

Scientists have surveyed the lost continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific:

A team of 32 scientists from 12 countries returned last week from a nine-week voyage to study the once-lost continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific. This mostly submerged or hidden continent is an elevated part of the ocean floor, about two-thirds the size of Australia, located between New Zealand and New Caledonia. Scientists said earlier this year they thought Zealandia should be recognized as a full-fledged Earth continent. This was one of the first extensive surveys of the region, and the scientists who carried it out – affiliated with the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) at Texas A&M University – have just arrived back in Hobart, Tasmania, aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution. They said their work has already revealed that Zealandia might once have been much closer to land level than previously thought, providing pathways for animals and plants to cross between continents.

Little is known about Zealandia because it's submerged about two-thirds of a miles (more than a kilometer) under the sea. Until now, the region has been sparsely surveyed and sampled.

Scientists taking part in the 2017 expedition drilled deep into Zealandia's seabed at six sites in water depths of more than 4,000 feet (1,250 meters). They collected 8,000 feet (2,500 meters) of sediment cores from layers that record how the geography, volcanism and climate of the region have changed over millions of years.

Also at Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, and the JOIDES Resolution blog (drilling ship).

Zealandia: Earth's Hidden Continent (open, DOI: 10.1130/GSATG321A.1) (DX)

Previously: Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:50AM (7 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:50AM (#576485) Journal

    You will be wishing it was Welsh, when the Ancient Ones awaken!!

    (You really have no idea, do you! Google Cthulthu. It might help)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @10:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @10:46AM (#576517)

    Et tu Brutae? Whoosh!!! Though it pains me...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:04PM (#576561)

    Thank goodness it's just them. They're easily defeated by aligning oneself to each of the three mutually exclusive elements on each simultaneous 24 hour day, then on the remaining simultaneous rotation, align yourself with Mantorok. They'll all destroy each other when the lich king summons the ancient of the element he's aligned with on each of the simultaneous 24 hour days and mutually annihilate. Of course that doesn't solve the problem of Mantorok. Men go and come, but Mantorok abides.

    True, it requires a bit of finesse, but you'd have to be RETARDED not to be able to pull it off, like some idiot with a cyclops mentality, inflicting static non pulsating logos as a fictitious queer same sex transformation. (It is the absolute verifiable truth and proven fact that your Belly-Button Signature ties to Viviparous Mama.)

    The only thing that can truly frighten me these days are the Sheeple, sealed by the advanced people of AtlanZealandia 10,000 years ago.... Let us hope that nobody is foolish enough to wake them.

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:15PM (3 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:15PM (#576588) Journal

    Google Cthulthu.

    Wait, Google now has also a Cthulthu service?

    --
    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @04:51PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @04:51PM (#576659)

      It won't translate that dialect of Welsh that Chtulthu speaks. Maybe there's a message in Cliff Burton's bass soloing?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:56PM (#576697)

      Sorry, it's a closed beta.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:58PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:58PM (#576699)

      Looking forward to people walking down the street asking their phone "Ok Chtulhu, where is the nearest mental institution?"

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by rylyeh on Tuesday October 03 2017, @08:07PM

    by rylyeh (6726) <{kadath} {at} {gmail.com}> on Tuesday October 03 2017, @08:07PM (#576754)

    That is not dead which can eternal lie.
    And with strange eons, even death may die!

    --
    "a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."