Lost Continent of Argoland: A 155-Million-Year-Old Discovery by Scientist

Lost Continent of Argoland, In a recent discovery, a 3000-mile-wide landmass that broke off Australia during the Jurassic times and submerged under over 300 feet of water was discovered by geologists. It is a general consensus among them that even given the current technology, it was hard for them to find a big piece of land like this under the Indian Ocean.

The Lost Continent of Argoland—Australian Atlantis was discovered! Continent Surfacing Below Australia

Has the lost continent of Atlantis been found?

Yes, the lost continent of Argoland has been found. It is named Argoland and is believed to have drifted towards Southeast Asia before completely disappearing due to the rise in sea levels. It’s possible that the disappeared continent drifted off from Australia 155 million years ago.

Geologists claim that they always had an inkling that Agroland existed because of the void called the Agro-Abyssal Plain. It is a void or a basin that is located deep below the ocean. While the void has existed for many years now, geologists claim the landmass beneath it was pretty hard to find the Lost Continent of Argoland.

Why are geologists claiming it was ‘hard to find’?

When posed with this question, Duowe Van Hinsbereng, one of the authors of the study conducted, said: “If continents can dive into the mantle and disappear entirely without leaving a geological trace at the earth’s surface, then we wouldn’t have much of an idea of what the earth could have looked like in the geological past.”

He adds, “Those reconstructions are vital for our understanding of processes like the evolution of biodiversity and climate, or for finding raw materials. And at a more fundamental level: for understanding how mountains are formed or for working out the driving forces behind plate tectonics—two phenomena that are closely related.”

The Lost Continent of Agroland still hasn’t been tactfully discovered because the landmass was shredded into many fragments when it started drifting away from the Australian continent. It is said to have started to break apart some 300 million years ago.

Over the years, scientists have uncovered a number of lost continents; Zealandia is the eighth. Zealandia is thought to be a remarkable one billion years old and is nearly completely submerged in the southwest Pacific.

It is located beneath New Zealand, as its name suggests, and was officially recognised as the eighth continent on Earth in 2017.

“The underwater feature also lends its name to the newly formed continent: Argoland. The structure of the seafloor shows that this continent must have drifted off to the northwest, and must have ended up where the islands of Southeast Asia are located today.” the press release said.

The publication also clarifies why Argoland is so broken up: the continent broke into thin splinters about 215 million years ago, speeding up the breakup. The geologists worked in the field on a number of islands, including Borneo, Sulawesi, Timor, Sumatra, and the Andaman Islands, in order to verify their models and establish the age of important rock strata.

The planet we live on is changing everyday. Researchers and geologists believe it is a fact that more than half of the blue planet is yet to be discovered.

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Like the Lost Continent of Argoland, there may be numerous other surprises waiting for us to uncover that have gotten obscured due to the changes we have made to this planet to make it our home.

An article in the journal Gondwana Research states that the team thinks they have found the Lost Continent of Argoland in Southeast Asia. It appears like the vanished continent is entirely broken apart, yet it remains. The team was running out of theories, so this is also wonderful news. Otherwise, we would have been faced with a significant scientific issue, as the authors stated in a statement.

There is great potential for scientific discovery in Gondwana. Renowned hypotheses suggest that the extinct mega-continent was once vast enough to encompass Antarctica, Australia, South America, Africa, and India. The continents drifted as they shattered, and some of the fragments broke away in the process, including the recently fully mapped Zealandia, which is known as the eighth continent. Lost Continent of Argoland