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Ocean that sank millions of years ago discovered [1]

Geoscientists claim to have discovered an entire ocean that was destroyed 20 to 50 million years ago when its sea floor sank some 1,100km into the earth between Australia and New Zealand. An international team has reconstructed the cataclysm which took place when the tectonic plate underlying the ocean

Publication Date: 
07/03/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Oceans and Seas [3], Natural Disasters [4], Science And Technology [5], Australia [6], New Zealand [7]

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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/australia
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/new-zealand