I wanted to check the generation of the new stone types, made a new map, then found a deep ocean cutting through the land, creating chunk error borders. I tested the same seed in 1.7.4 and the map generated fine, it only happens in the snapshot. There was no map of the same name, so I don't believe this is the issue of old chunks being put into new maps.
This has been in the game for a while I believe. Sometimes, when you generate a world, it gets corrupted like that. It's happened to me a few times.