Could lost islands discovered in present-day Pacific be Lemuria Mu?
- Map of the Panthalassa Ocean about 200 million years ago. The white ovals show the reconstructed locations of volcanic arcs known from continental rocks.
Another map, this time, of the Panthalassa Ocean during the time of the megacontinent Pangaea. This article at Ars Technica describes how geophysicists “analyzed seismic velocity data from the mantle beneath the Pacific” and found that the Panthalassa Ocean was not as featureless as previously theorized. They concluded that:
In addition to working out the location of these volcanic arcs, the study will also help researchers reconstruct the history of the Pacific plate. “[F]or any future model of the Panthalassa Ocean, the presence of the Telkhinia subduction zone needs to be taken into account,” wrote van der Meer. “Previous models simply extrapolated the spreading ridges until they [encountered] a continent. We have now proven that it was not that simple, and the tectonic history was complicated.”
As I have before, when I read of scientists finding evidence for ancient lost islands in what became the present-day Pacific Ocean, I wonder if these landmasses could have been Lemuria Mu.
