Seamless
The puzzle that Advokaat and Van Hinsbergen have solved fits seamlessly between the neighbouring geological systems of the Himalayas and the Philippines. Their detective work also explains why Argoland is so fragmented: the break-up accelerated around 215 million years ago, as the continent shattered into thin splinters. The geologists conducted field work on several islands, including Sumatra, the Andaman Islands, Borneo, Sulawesi and Timor, to test their models and determine the age of key rock strata.
Reference: Advokaat EL, Van Hinsbergen DJJ. Finding Argoland: reconstructing a microcontinental archipelago from the SE Asian accretionary orogen. Gondwana Research. October 2023:S1342937X23002769. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2023.10.005
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