Scientists Have Found The Lost Continent Argoland, Missing For 155 Million Years

Approximately 155 million years ago, according to geologists, a continent known as Argoland vanished off the face of the Earth.

Scientists now believe that they have found it.

Here’s what happened…

Around 155 million years ago a 3,100 mile-long piece of land broke off of western Australia.

What was unusual about Argoland is that it drifted off and unlike other large land masses that have fragmented off in the past, like the Lost Continent of Greater Adria, Argoland just disappeared.

“At some point in the past, Greater Adria plunged into the earth’s mantle, but the top layer stayed behind and was folded to form the mountains of Southern Europe,” the scientists said in a press release.

“Argoland, however, left no such trace in the form of folded rock strata.”

“Geologists have long known that around 155 million years ago, a 5000 km long piece of continent broke off western Australia and drifted away. They can see that by the ‘void’ it left behind: a basin hidden deep below the ocean known as the Argo Abyssal Plain. The underwater feature also lends its name to the newly formed continent: Argoland. The structure of the seafloor shows that this continent must have drifted off to the northwest, and must have ended up where the islands of Southeast Asia are located today. But surprisingly, there is no large continent hidden beneath those islands, only the remnants of small continental fragments that are also surrounded by much older oceanic basins.”

The scientists, whose discovery is explained in a recently published research paper, say that “spent seven years putting the puzzle together.”

“The situation in Southeast Asia is very different from places like Africa and South America, where a continent broke neatly into two pieces. Argoland splintered into many different shards,” said Utrecht University geologist Eldert Advokaat. “That obstructed our view of the continent’s journey.”

Once they realized, according to the press release, “that the fragments arrived at their current locations at around the same time, which clarified how they once connected together. The shards formed a collage: Argoland is hidden beneath the green jungles of large parts of Indonesia and Myanmar.”