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GSA Today Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent Cover Image 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 cont ....
The strange story of Sandy Island, the remote Pacific outcrop that never existed There is – in a very real sense of the familiar phrase – nothing to see here Sandy Island on a 1908 map The RV Southern Surveyor was sailing through the sunlight of a warm summer day when Dr Maria Seton noticed that something was wrong. November 22 2012 should have been an ordinary date in the diary for this doughty Australian research vessel, as it studied the lay-out of the seabed in the Coral Sea, some 900 miles east of mainland Queensland. But after a few minutes of confusion, the geologist on its deck realised that, somehow and somewhere, the ship had left the chart. Seton and her colleagues were travelling freely across a horizon-wide patch of open ocean. The trouble was, the map said otherwise. In its esteemed opinion, they had just washed ashore – onto an island the size of Manhattan. ....