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Zealandia supports substantial inshore fisheries and contains gas fields, of which the largest known is the New Zealand Maui gas field, near Taranaki. Permits for oil exploration in the Great South Basin were issued in 2007. [18] Offshore mineral resources include ironsands, volcanic massive sulfides and ferromanganese nodule deposits. [19]
Zealandia had so much promise as the eighth continent on Earth. Well, it did—until about 95 percent of the mass sunk under the ocean. While the majority of Zealandia may never host inhabitants ...
The world was shook earlier this year when researchers revealed Zealandia - a sunken continent long lost beneath the ocean. Scientists reveal secrets from the ‘lost continent’ of Zealandia ...
I think that's why Zealandia dosen't have much of a craton because much of its craton forms Australia, which was split apart from the ancient mid-ocean ridge. A similar formation is occuring in Antarctica; one part of the continent is non-cratonic and the other is cratonic with the West Antarctic Rift separating the two of them.
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The trough is between 200 and 300 km (120 and 190 mi) wide, [1] and traverses a number of sedimentary basins within the submerged continent of Zealandia. This is a geological concept that did not exist before 1995 when the subducted slab capture hypothesis was first applied to the breakup of east Gondwana. [11]
Most of the islands lie near the southeast edge of the largely submerged continent centred on New Zealand called Zealandia, which was riven from Australia 60–85 million years ago, and from Antarctica 85–130 million years ago.
The remains of Gondwana 83 Ma, with Zealandia lower left Plesiosaur , is 7 metres long and lived around 70–69 million years ago in the seas around Zealandia. The Australia-New Zealand continental part of Gondwana split from Antarctica in the late Cretaceous (95–90 Ma). This was followed by Zealandia separating from Australia (c.85 Ma).