After breaking away from Australia millions of years ago, Algorand appeared to have broken the billion-piece puzzle of the so-called “ribbon continent,” leaving geologists scratching their heads. Eldert Advocaat, one of the authors of a recent study on the region, explained that his team spent more than seven years building part of this puzzle before confidently presenting their findings. .
The researchers raised the idea that when Algorand separated from Australia, it split into millions of parts, rather than other continental plates such as Africa and South America splitting into huge but equal halves. When, clearly, a breakthrough in thinking was made.