Have Scientists Discovered Proof for the Lost Continent of Lemuria?

[Callista]

Will and I were particularly interested in this article, since we live on Gondwana-land.

Have Scientists Discovered Proof for the Lost Continent of Lemuria?


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Most people have heard of the lost continent of Atlantis. Some know about the legendary lost continent of Lemuria and the semi-mythical land of Kumari Kandam as well. But have you heard of the continent of Mauritia? This landmass formed a part of Madagascar and India and scientists say the rest of the continent is now lying at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

That is where they think it has been for approximately the last 85 million years. Scientist have now confirmed that the ancient continental crust underneath the island of Mauritius is a remnant of the break-up of the supercontinent, Gondwana, that happened about 200 million years ago.

Gondwana broke up to become Antarctica, Africa, Australia, and South America. There are still some amazing remnants of the supercontinent that can be seen around the world, but much of its story has been covered over by other geological forces. The discovery of Mauritia is another example attesting to Gondwana’s former glory and break-up.


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New Scientist says “The first clues to the continent’s existence came when some parts of the Indian Ocean were found to have stronger gravitational fields than others, indicating thicker crusts. One theory was that chunks of land had sunk and become attached to the ocean crust below.”


Read more here: http://www.theeventchronicle.com/study/scientists-discovered-proof-lost-continent-lemuria/#

[Hervé]

Here is another research which demonstrate the existence of continental material (crust) as far back as 2 billion years ago:


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Scientists spot possible remains of "Rodinia," ancient lost microcontinent (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/scientists-spot-possible-remains-ancient-supercontinent)

Rebecca Boyle PopSci (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/scientists-spot-possible-remains-ancient-supercontinent)
Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:59 CST


http://www.sott.net/image/image/s6/133095/full/rodinia_map.jpg
Supercontinent Rodinia This map of supercontinent Rodinia shows the ancient locations of the continents. "Mauritia" is sandwiched between what is now India and Madagascar. © United States Antarctic Program/Wikipedia --


Tourists vacationing on the sunny isles of Reunion and Mauritius have no idea what secrets those sandy beaches hold. The islands could be hiding the remains of an ancient micro-continent (http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/portal/gfz/Public+Relations/Pressemitteilungen/aktuell/130224_Mauritia;jsessionid=27FB233484C14590D8C57C141CC3404A?template=gfz), quietly torn apart between 50 and 100 million years ago, according to a new study. Scientists think they have spotted a fragment of a continent known as Mauritia.

The small strip of continent was once tucked tightly between the lands now known as India and Madagascar, back when those areas were packed into a supercontinent known as Rodinia. (It's the older and less-famous relative of supercontinent Pangaea.) Evidence of this sandwiched continent came from sand grains on Mauritius beaches, according to Trond Torsvik of the University of Oslo in Norway and colleagues.

Rodinia would have existed from the Precambrian era, about 2 billion years ago, to around 85 million years ago when plate tectonics broke it apart. Continental breakup is usually a mantle plume's doing--hot rock from within the Earth softens up tectonic plates, which eventually split. This is how the land masses now known as Madagascar, India, Australia and Antarctica broke up and migrated to their current locations on the planet. As this took place and the Indian Ocean formed, small fragments located on the edges of the rupture zone broke off--this is how the Seychelles came to be. Mini-continent Mauritius just wasn't so lucky, and it slipped beneath the waves, disappearing with time.

http://www.sott.net/image/image/s6/133096/full/Reunion_Hotspot.jpg
Ancient Lost Continent, Newly Discovered: The areas with topography just below the sea surface are now regarded as continental fragments. The colored track west of Reunion is the calculated movement of the Reunion hotspot. The black lines with yellow circles and the red circle indicate the corresponding calculated track on the African plate and the Indian plate, respectively. The numbers in the circles are ages in millions of years. © GFZ/Steinberger

Much later, volcano eruptions spewed its remnants back to the top of the Earth's crust, Torsvik and colleagues write.

They examined sands in Mauritius that formed from eroded volcanic rocks, dating to about 9 million years ago. But when the team looked at these sand grains, they found ancient zircon minerals that were far more ancient--between 660 and 1,970 million years old. The presence of these ancient zircons points to microcontinent fragments churning up due to more recent volcanic activity, the team says.

The discovery of a possible microcontinent fragment suggests continental leftovers like the Seychelles might be more common than scientists thought. A paper describing the research is published this week in Nature Geoscience (http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1736.html).

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... then, there's also "Zealandia (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?96022-Zealandia-A-Submerged-Continent)"...

[Jayke]

Graham Hancock endorsed a book several months ago called The Forgotten Exodus: The into Africa Theory of Human Evolution (or the Out of Australia Theory as it might otherwise be called)

https://grahamhancock.com/fentonb1/

The book states that from the genetic research, Homo Sapiens underwent a dramatic bottleneck event roughly 80,000 years ago. Coinciding with the lake Toba supervolcano explosion (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory) in the Indonesian continent.

Interestingly, Indonesia supposedly has the highest density of Dolmens in the world, hundreds of thousands according to Freddy Silva in one of his DVD presentations. (Think it was his Otherworld DVD, but I'd have to check)

http://www.invisibletemple.com/dvds.html

Carmen Boulter has also done a few interviews with the Dark Journalist this year where she talks of Indonesia as being the location of the original Atlantis (Or pre-Atlantean culture of Lemuria possibly?)

http://darkjournalist.com/intv-boulter.php

Definitely lots of interesting data points emerging from that side of the world :)

[ghostrider]

It is said, King Arus was responsible for the destruction of Lemuria and Atlantis ... His 200 scientist called themselves the sons of heaven, hint ...hungry for power and might, they played a key role in the creation of present day mankind ...
The complete story is in the Billy Meier Contact notes ...