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The mystery of what happened to a lost continent that seemingly vanished 155 million years ago may have finally been solved, after scientists unearthed evidence of the landmass and retraced its steps.
Researchers have long known that a landmass rifted from Australia 155 million years ago, thanks to clues left in the geology of a deep ocean basin known as the Argo Abyssal Plain off the country's northwest coast. Related: Zealandia, Earth's hidden continent, was torn from supercontinent Gondwana in flood of fire 100 million years ago
In the new study, published online Oct. 19 in the journal Gondwana Research, Advokaat and his colleagues reconstructed the breakaway continent's journey. The researchers found fragments of ancient land scattered around Indonesia and Myanmar, but when they tried to reconstruct Argoland out of these fragments,"nothing fit," he said.
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