'Lost continent' the size of Greenland found under Europe
Real-life Atlantis: Lost continent found under Europe is revealing Earth's missing history
Real-life Atlantis: Lost continent found under Europe is revealing Earth's missing history
- published: 21 Sep 2019
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Real-life Atlantis: Lost continent found under Europe is revealing Earth\'s missing history Research has turned up lost continents buried beneath Europe and in the Pacific Ocean, and there may be more. Sept. 20, 2019, 1:04 PM ET By Corey S. Powell More than 2,000 years ago, Plato wrote about a land called Atlantis, where a mighty empire vanished beneath the waves after a series of “excessively violent earthquakes and floods.” His tale has inspired plenty of nonsense in the centuries since, but now it seems that Plato was on to something. New research shows that lost continents are a real thing, and they have had a big impact on human life — though not in the way Plato imagined. Douwe van Hinsbergen, a geologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has been exploring one of the most dramatic of these lost continents — known as Greater Adria. In a paper published in early September in the journal Gondwana Research, he and his colleagues studied rocks around and beneath the Mediterranean Sea to reveal the full extent of Greater Adria for the first time. “It’s enormous! About the size and rough shape as Greenland,” he says. If you don’t recall seeing Greater Adria on a map, there’s a reason for that. It is completely buried — not under the ocean, but beneath southern Europe. About 140 million years ago, the two continents began to collide. Greater Adria got bulldozed and buried in the process and mostly sank beneath what is now Italy, Greece and the Baltics. And Greater Adria is not unique. Emerging studies of Earth’s mantle show likely traces of past lost continents. A...
Real-life Atlantis: Lost continent found under Europe is revealing Earth's missing history
- published: 21 Sep 2019
- views: 88
Real-life Atlantis: Lost continent found under Europe is revealing Earth\'s missing history Research has turned up lost continents buried beneath Europe and in the Pacific Ocean, and there may be more. Sept. 20, 2019, 1:04 PM ET By Corey S. Powell More than 2,000 years ago, Plato wrote about a land called Atlantis, where a mighty empire vanished beneath the waves after a series of “excessively violent earthquakes and floods.” His tale has inspired plenty of nonsense in the centuries since, but now it seems that Plato was on to something. New research shows that lost continents are a real thing, and they have had a big impact on human life — though not in the way Plato imagined. Douwe van Hinsbergen, a geologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has been exploring one of the most dramatic of these lost continents — known as Greater Adria. In a paper published in early September in the journal Gondwana Research, he and his colleagues studied rocks around and beneath the Mediterranean Sea to reveal the full extent of Greater Adria for the first time. “It’s enormous! About the size and rough shape as Greenland,” he says. If you don’t recall seeing Greater Adria on a map, there’s a reason for that. It is completely buried — not under the ocean, but beneath southern Europe. About 140 million years ago, the two continents began to collide. Greater Adria got bulldozed and buried in the process and mostly sank beneath what is now Italy, Greece and the Baltics. And Greater Adria is not unique. Emerging studies of Earth’s mantle show likely traces of past lost continents. A...
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