Traces of the supercontinent Gondwana in the Indian Ocean have been discovered by a German-Australian team of marine geologists.
The researchers mapped and sampled about 60 seamounts – ranging in height from one to three kilometres – in one the world’s largest volcanic seamount provinces off the north-west Australian coast, which lie in a 200 kilometre-thick band almost parallel to the equator
Dating and analysis of the rocks from the seamounts revealed their composition must have had some influence from continental rocks.
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