With enough samples, those tiny crystals—each about one-third of a millimeter long—can be used to outline Zealandia’s geology. The zircons formed when volcanic magma cooled and solidified.

The huge landmassl, Zealandia, sits East of Australia. It's been lost underwater for millennia. ... But now that geologists have a basic idea of the outline of Zealandia and its geology, ...

Mortimer told Business Insider that the new maps offer more proof that Zealandia was actually a separate continent – as opposed to a "microcontinent," which was its classification before 2017 ...

The 'lost continent' of Zealandia, which is submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean, experienced a major upheaval about 35 to 50 million years ago. According to findings published Feb. 6 in the ...

Zealandia, a submerged landmass in the Pacific, is considered the world's eighth continent. Named in 1995 and confirmed as a continent in 2017, it separated from Gondwana millions of years ago.

Zealandia, meanwhile, has not yet smashed into Australia. A piece of seafloor called the Cato Trough still separates the continents by 25 kilometers (15.5 miles).

New Zealand might be Australia’s smaller neighbor but it’s sitting on a massive new continent scientists have named “Zealandia,” according to a publication released by The Geological ...

Beneath the waves of the South Pacific lies Zealandia, a submerged landmass spanning nearly two million square miles. Often referred to as Earth's potential eighth continent, 95% of its surface ...

Zealandia is mostly hidden beneath more than one kilometre of water and could be classified as more than 90% continental slope. Menu. Lost world. Why Zealandia is so different from other continents.

Earlier this year, geologists argued that a new, mostly sunken landmass called Zealandia should be classified as our planet's eighth continent. Now scientists have returned from a two-month ...

Scientists are making a renewed claim for Zealandia—a land mass that is 94 percent submerged under water and includes New Zealand—to be recognized as a new continent. In a paper published in ...