Created: July 27, 2021 03:06 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. As a sports enthusiast coming out of school, Dakota Wood wanted to be an athletic trainer. Oh, shoot. The anatomy aspect of it was a little much for me, Wood said.
He found himself pursuing a different career welding. She told me to pick something that sounds like fun, Wood said. I figured playing with hot steel and fire all day would be pretty fun!
Wood works at Kerr Squared, a welding shop in the South Valley.
Greyson Tagg is another welder at the shop. I went to Valencia High School and my freshman year they had a welding class and I took that, Tagg said.
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Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent
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2 GNS Science, P.O. Box 30368, Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand
3 SGEES, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
4 Service Géologique de Nouvelle Calédonie, B.P. 465, Nouméa 98845, New Caledonia
5 School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Abstract
A 4.9 Mkm
2 region of the southwest Pacific Ocean is made up of continental crust. The region has elevated bathymetry relative to surrounding oceanic crust, diverse and silica-rich rocks, and relatively thick and low-velocity crustal structure. Its isolation from Australia and large area support its definition as a continent Zealandia. Zealandia was formerly part of Gondwana. Today it is 94% submerged, mainly as a result of widespread Late Cretaceous crustal thinning preceding supercontinent breakup and consequent isostatic balance. The identification of Zealandia as a geological continent, rather than a collectio