New Zealand & New Caledonia Geographically Connected: Ocean's Journey Towards the Center of Earth

ScienceDaily ^ | Thursday, March 5, 2009 | Monash University

[SunkenCiv]

A Monash geoscientist and a team of international researchers have discovered the existence of an ocean floor was destroyed 50 to 20 million years ago, proving that New Caledonia and New Zealand are geographically connected. Using new computer modelling programs Wouter Schellart and the team reconstructed the prehistoric cataclysm that took place when a tectonic plate between Australia and New Zealand was subducted 1100 kilometres into the Earth's interior and at the same time formed a long chain of volcanic islands at the surface. Mr Schellart conducted the research, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in collaboration with Brian Kennett from ANU (Canberra) and Wim Spakman and Maisha Amaru from Utrecht University in the Netherlands... Mr Schellart said the new discovery diffuses the debate about whether the continents and micro-continents in the Southwest Pacific have been completely separated since 100 million years ago and helps to explain some of the mysteries surrounding evolution in the region.

[SunkenCiv]

Had to slightly edit the title (removed a "the" and changed an "and" to "&") in order to have it fit. The title of the original is "New Zealand and New Caledonia Geographically Connected: Ocean's Journey Towards the Center of the Earth".

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[americanophile]

Let me save them the millions of dollars of research...under the ocean, we’re all connected to New Zealand.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[txnativegop]

An interesting article. However, I do have one quick question: How much money did Obama give to them, since he seems to giving cash to the entire world these days?

[Tainan]

Every time I see/hear anything about New Caledonia I immediately think of "McHaels Navy."

[Tainan]

McHaels = McHales Navy...of course.

[SunkenCiv]

:’D The first movies I recall seeing in the theater (drive-in of course) were the first two McHale’s navy (I think there were three of those?).