Indain ocean

Ancient micro-continent found under the Indian Ocean

Desert Gypsy's picture

Submitted by Desert Gypsy on

The Watchers-3/5/13, Chillymanjaro

 

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found evidence of an ancient micro-continent buried beneath the Indian Ocean which formed in the last 16 millions years. This ancient precambrian continent, named Mauritia, extends more than 1500 km in length from the Seychelles to the island of Mauritius and contains rocks as old as 2,000 million years. According to Professor Nick Kusznir, who led the University of Liverpool’s processing and analysis of satellite gravitational field anomalies to map the Indian Ocean crustal thickness, there are remnants of fragmented continents under the Indian Ocean. The research team believe that this micro-continent was split off from Madagascar...

 

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found evidence of an ancient micro-continent buried beneath the Indian Ocean which formed in the last 16 millions years. This ancient precambrian continent, named Mauritia, extends more than 1500 km in length from the Seychelles to the island of Mauritius and contains rocks as old as 2,000 million years. According to Professor Nick Kusznir, who led the University of Liverpool’s processing and analysis of satellite gravitational field anomalies to map the Indian Ocean crustal thickness, there are remnants of fragmented continents under the Indian Ocean.

Subscribe to RSS - Indain ocean