For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental ... the open sea and dredged from the seafloor north of New Zealand to map the extent of various geological formations.
A map created in 2019 of the southern region of the continent revealed that it is ... samples of underwater rocks from the ...
You might think you know all the continents, but what about Zealandia? In 2017, a previously unknown contingent of the shores of New Zealand was ... a new geological map containing Zealandia.
There is no formal body to approve a continent," Nick Mortimer, a geologist from New Zealand's GNS Science who ... Part of Turnbull's mission is to create a 4D map of Zealandia's western coast ...
Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe ... the notion that New Zealand is part of its own continent, Zealandia, is a newer argument. Submerged shelves that rise high above the ocean ...
But they hadn't been able to map its full breadth until now. On Monday, researchers from GNS Science in New Zealand announced that they'd mapped the shape and size of the continent in ...