(December 4, 2020 at 10:34 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Why is Zealandia a continent?
Because it was large, larger than Australia, larger than India. It is made of continental types of crustal rock compositions. It’s ongoing volcanic activities are still of the continental type. Geologists generally recognize it as structurally a continent that rifted away from Antarctica at the same time as Australia, and then separated from Australia later. It was still mostly above water until 23 million years ago. The only thing that made it different now from other bonafide continents is it is mostly submerged.
