submerged continent

In recent days the news of the discovery of a new continent submerged in the ocean around New Zealand has bounced on the news media. Let's face it straight away: has not been "discovered" no new continent. It was simply proposed, by some geologists and geophysicists, recognition as such, in light of the connection of various characteristics that have been in part known for a long time but which have finally been able to combine into a more complete and coherent. Topography of the continent of Zealandia (Di World Data Center for Geophysics & Marine Geology (Boulder, CO), National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA [...]