Posted on 01/22/2018 10:10:38 PM PST by BenLurkin
Geologists matching rocks from opposite sides of the globe have found that part of Australia was once attached to North America 1.7 billion years ago.
Researchers from Curtin University in Australia examinedrocks from the Georgetown region of northern Queensland. The rocks — sandstone sedimentary rocks that formed in a shallow sea — had signatures that were unknownin Australia but strongly resembled rocks that can be seen in present-day Canada.
The researchers, who described their findings online Jan. 17 in the journal Geology, concluded that the Georgetown area broke away from North America 1.7 billion years ago. Then, 100 million years later, this landmass collided with what is now northern Australia, at the Mount Isa region.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
#SendItBack
It’s mine.
They found a fossilized kangaroo wearing a MAGA cap!
Actually, this is pretty interesting stuff, in a Pangea way.
I knew it ! Reclaim what’s ours and insert the 2nd Amendment.
Cultural appropriation. Let’s sue Australia the continent. If a man can be a woman a continent can be a “person” too.
REUNITE GONDWANALAND!!!
“REUNITE GONDWANALAND!!!”
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We push the NA continent and the Aussies push their’s, easy peasy! Like doing a jigsaw puzzle, only bigger.
Interesting!
The article clarifies that the Georgetown part of Australia was once joined with what is now Canada, so I’m sure Canadian headlines read “1.7-Billion-Year-Old Chunk of Canada Found Sticking to Australia”.
Did the eukaryotes living on the part that drifted away from Canada call themselves “separatists”?
Amazing that Hudson Bay has changed so little in all this...
Through satellite images we can see that the Island of Maui, Hawaii had been gradually moving toward Japan at a rate of 3 inches per year since 1976....
Catalina Island, just south of Los Angeles, is sinking into the ocean, and in a geologically short amount of time it will dip beneath the waves. Researchers have determined that the isle is descending at a rate of eight inches every thousand years, and tilting while it falls.
Our universe is dynamic and always changing.
If the US was muslim, tomorrow morning we’d start an immediate and total intifada over this.
Brit Empire uber alles in Geology....
Unknown, but we are daily burning-off the influence of eukaryotes.
It can’t be...according to Globull Warming morons, the earth was unchanged until man ruined the planet. Which is BS....
Guess what, if the water could be drained from the oceans, you would find that all the continents are connected...
I always knew those damn Aussies were thieves.
Thanks FrogMom. That's probably where all the lost car keys wind up as well. ;^)
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