All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 May Missing piece of one billion-year-old geographic puzzle Missing piece of one billion-year-old geographic puzzle 13/05/2021 | 3 MINS A new study by researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology has found a missing piece of an ancient geographic puzzle that puts Australia on the map one billion years ago. The international study, published today in Geology, found the missing piece to reassemble a map of the earthΓÇÖs second last supercontinent. Every few hundred million years the earthΓÇÖs continents collide and form supercontinents that have significant implications for the EarthΓÇÖs environment. The last supercontinent on earth, called Pangea, formed around 300 million years ago and prior to this, 1300-900 million years ago, the supercontinent Rodinia existed. Professor Marco Fiorentini from LITΓÇÖs School of Earth Sciences collaborated with an international team of researchers to locate AustraliaΓÇÖs geographic location in the Rodinian supercontinent. Through the application of a series of sophisticated analytical methods, the team
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 May Missing piece of one billion-year-old geographic puzzle Missing piece of one billion-year-old geographic puzzle 13/05/2021 | 3 MINS A new study by researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology has found a missing piece of an ancient geographic puzzle that puts Australia on the map one billion years ago.
The international study, published today in Geology, found the missing piece to reassemble a map of the earthΓÇÖs second last supercontinent.
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Every few hundred million years the earthΓÇÖs continents collide and form supercontinents that have significant implications for the EarthΓÇÖs environment.
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The last supercontinent on earth, called Pangea, formed around 300 million years ago and prior to this, 1300-900 million years ago, the supercontinent Rodinia existed.
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Professor Marco Fiorentini from LITΓÇÖs School of Earth Sciences collaborated with an international team of researchers to locate AustraliaΓÇÖs geographic location in the Rodinian supercontinent.
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Through the application of a series of sophisticated analytical methods, the team
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