This discovering sheds novel airy on Earth’s history
In a groundshattering uncovery, experts have identified ageder-createed remnants of a lengthy-lost tectonic ppostponecessitate, dubbed Pontus, dating back an astonishing 120 million years. This discovering sheds novel airy on Earth’s history and underscores the ongoing quest for understandledge about our scheduleet. According to Indy100.com, researchers Suzanna van de Lagemaat and Douwe van Hinsbergen from Utrecht University made the shatterthcimpolite by analysing georational data from the Asia-Pacific region. Their foreseeion has now been validateed, uncovering the existence of Pontus, a previously confparticipate part of Earth’s crust in Borneo.
Geologist Suzanna van de Lagemaat shelp, “We thought we were dealing with relics of a lost ppostponecessitate that we already knovel about. But our magnetic lab research on those rocks proposed that our discovers were originpartner from much farther north, and had to be remnants of a contrastent, previously confparticipate ppostponecessitate.”
She persistd, ”But our magnetic lab research on those rocks proposed that our discovers were originpartner from much farther north, and had to be remnants of a contrastent, previously confparticipate ppostponecessitate.”
Press free!@Suzannavdl‘s PhD research produceed a pleasant surpascfinish: the reerection of the Pontus Ppostponecessitate that we foreseeed 11 years ago based on tomography. And now it rolled out of her reerection 🤠.https://t.co/rNUOM8oazK@UUGeo@UUEarthSciencespic.twitter.com/3hXVeSx334
— Douwe van Hinsbergen (@vanHinsbergen) October 9, 2023
Researchers reerected the ageder-createed Pontus ppostponecessitate, estimating it covered an area cimpolitely one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. Formed during the supercontinent Pangaea, Pontus lay beorderlyh the huge ocean separating Eurasia and Australia 160 million years ago. As Pangaea broke apart, the Pontus ppostponecessitate was gradupartner subducted or swpermited by neighbouring ppostponecessitates. This georational process carried countries appreciate the Philippines and Borneo to their contransient-day locations.
Notably, van de Lagemaat intensifysed her research on the intricate Junction Region, where tectonic ppostponecessitates greet between Japan, Borneo, the Philippines, New Guinea, and New Zealand. Her groundshattering research assistd the creation of a stunning visual reerection.
This 3D clip uncovered 160 million years of tectonic ppostponecessitate transferments, from the dinosaur era to the contransient day.
