FORMER
LAND AREAS IN THE PACIFIC
AND INDIAN OCEANS
Former
land areas in the present Pacific and Indian Oceans. Only those
areas for which substantial evidence already exists are shown.
Their exact outlines and full extent are as yet unknown. G1.
Seychelles area: G2. Great Oyashio Paoleoland: G3, Obruchev
Rise: G4 Lemuria: S1 area of Ontong-Java Plateau. Magellan Sea
Mounts, and Mid-Pacific Mountains: S2. Northeast Pacific: S3
Southeast Pacific including Chatham Rise and Campbell Plateau:
S4. Southwest Pacific: S5 area including South Tasman Rise:
S6. East Tasman Rise and Lord Howe Rise: S7. Northeast Indian
Ocean: S8. Northwest Indian Ocean. (Reprinted with permission
from Dickins. 1994a, 1994b. Copyright by J.M. Dickins.)
Paper
by David Pratt – Journal of Scientific Expoloration
Vol.14, No.3, Fall 2000
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