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8th Continent New Zealandia

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  In 2017, a group of geologists announced the discovery of New Zealandia (Te Riua Mui among the Maori), a vast landmass of 4.9 million square kilometers, about six times the size of Madagascar. The catch is that 94% of its miles are underwater, with only a handful of islands, which include New Zealand, thrusting out from its oceanic depths. It has been hiding in undeniable sight all along. Four years on, and the continent is as enigmatic as ever, its secrets and techniques jealously guarded under 6,560 ft (2 km) of water. How did it take shape? What used to stay there? And how lengthy has it been underwater? Studying the geology, it's concluded that New Zealand is "the remnant of a mountain-chain that shaped the crest of an exquisite continental location that stretched a long way to the south and east, and that's now submerged." Till recently, the oldest crust and rock ever sampled from Zealandia used to be simply five hundred million years old, whereas all the di

Inner core of the Earth has been growing faster under Indonesia's Banda Sea and Brazil

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    Consistent with a replacement study, the solid-iron inner core of the world has been growing faster on one side than the opposite for over 500 million years. It is growing faster under Indonesia's Banda Sea than under Brazil, but this uneven growth pattern hasn't left the core lopsided, say seismologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who are investigating the phenomenon. Gravity has acted to evenly distribute the new growth, made from iron crystals that form as molten iron begins to chill, maintaining a spherical inner core density.   Even though it doesn't leave the core lopsided, this uneven rate of growth suggests something within the outer core under Indonesia is removing heat from the inner core at a faster rate than it's under Brazil on the other side of the earth, the team said. Researchers say this discovery has helped them "prove rather loose bounds" for the age of the inner core, which is between half a billion and 1.5 billion y

Reason behind Ice Sheets is melting

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We have two major Ice mass in our planet Artic region, in the North and Antarctic Peninsula, in the south. Antarctica is a landmass which is no man’s land and no government occupies the extended piece of land. It had been the base for the scientists and researchers of many countries. Antarctica is covered with Ice sheets throughout centuries. It had also been the place for study of the weather conditions of different phases of million years age. the Land had been the witness of extreme climates faced by the Earth in past billions of years. The major worry of the scientist’s community is the global warming. If the Global warming is not taken into consideration to alter the situation, then the humanity will suffer it consequence.   Detached Ice masses In Antarctica Recently, the researchers are been alarmed of the sign of  Antarctica getting warmer. When mapped in the reading radar from the satellite, - the heat zone was found beyond normal spread over Antarctica. It concerned th