New Continent Found Under the Sea in Europe. Lost continent the size of Greenland has been hiding beneath Europe for 140million years, new maps reveal. THE HISTORY of a lost continent buried under Europe for 100million years has been revealed for the first time. new continent appears. New Continent discovered.
Greater Adria was a giant landmass the size of Greenland that dramatically collided with our own continent. The crash ploughed most of Greater Adria under the ground and sea while the rest crumbled into rocks on land. Remnants of the geological blow remain millions of years later, say an international team of scientists. New continent found Under Europe.
They analysed rocks that were originally part of Greater Adria found in mountain ranges stretching from Spain to Iran. A lengthy paper penned by the group gives a blow-by-blow account of the Earth’s geological history stretching back 240million years.
In it, they reveal that Europe’s crash with Greater Adria may have triggered the formation of mountains throughout Italy, Turkey, Greece and southeastern Europe. new continent found under antarctica.
“The Mediterranean region is quite simply a geological mess,“ said lead author Professor Douwe van Hinsbergen, from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
“Everything is curved, broken, and stacked.“
Greater Adria was once part of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana, an enormous lump of land that later split to form Africa, Antarctica, South America, Australia and parts of the Middle East and Asia. After the split, Greater Adria formed its own continent, though not all of the landmass was above sea level.
Scientists think it likely took the form of a group of islands, a bit like the UK or the Philippines. Around 240million years ago, Greater Adria began to move north, eventually colliding with Europe between 100 and 120million years ago. This smashing together of rock may have laid the base for mountain ranges like the Alps, Live Science reported.
The actual collision took millions of years to complete, with each continent moving just four centimetres per year. Despite this pitiful pace, the crash still managed to bury the 60-mile-thick continent deep into the Earth’s crust. Much about Greater Adria remains a mystery. The fact that its remnants are spread from western Europe to the Middle East makes thing especially difficult for scientists.
“All the bits and pieces are jumbled up and I spent the last 10 years making the puzzle again,“ Professor van Hinsbergen said.
“Every country has its own geological survey and their own maps and their own stories and their own continents. With this study, we brought that all together in one big picture.“
Scientists used computer models to recreate how the Earth’s tectonic plates moved overtime for their study. The research was published in the journal Gondwana Research.
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