We all know the answer to the question, ‘How many continents are there in the world?’, don’t we? What if I say we were all wrong.
You’d be thinking about Atlantis. Well, the researchers have discovered a Greenland-sized lost continent under Europe, which they have named as Greater Adria. The continent reportedly got buried under Southern Europe 140 million years ago after it broke from Northern Africa.
Douwe van Hinsbergen, the author of the study which has been published in Gondwana Research, discovered the continent while studying the tectonic evolution of the Mediterranean region’s geology.
Most mountain chains that we investigated originated from a single continent that separated from North Africa more than 200 million years ago. The only remaining part of this continent is a strip that runs from Turin via the Adriatic Sea to the heel of the boot that forms Italy.
The geology of the Mediterranean region is “quite simply a geological mess” where “everything is curved, broken and stacked”, says van Hinsbergen.
Reconstructing the evolution of the Mediterranean region using plate tectonic reconstruction software, the researchers peeled back layers to understand how continents looked millions of years ago. The research revealed that Great Adria started to become a separate plate about 240 million years ago, and after 40 million years it got separated from North Africa. After another 60 million years, the continent submerged underwater where now Southern Europe exists.
The scraped rocks from Greater Adria are now parts of the mountains in areas such as the Alps, the Apennines, the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey.
From this mapping emerged the picture of Greater Adria, and several smaller continental blocks too, which now form parts of Romania, North Turkey or Armenia, for example.
The deformed remnants of the lost continent can still be seen in the mountain ranges located in the region under which the continent subdued into the mantle. van Hinsbergen added that we can still trace the 100 km thick continental plate under Southern Europe up to a depth of 1500 km using seismic waves.
I wonder what black magic they use to speculate million of years.Totally BS
yes it’s far more likely that we are all descended from adam and eve whose children boned each other to create the human race.
Doesn’t incest exist even today – whether it be humans or animals? You might as well be a product of incest with no posterity in your pedigree. How exactly are you so sure that no one boned your mum except your dad. Does he use titanium security locks :D ?
science is not for pakistanis. they should look for answers in the quran instead. that is all they are good for.
what kind of farce is it which would tell us about tectonic shifts of millions of years ago, by applying the little info we have today? Dear chay, most of geo seismic knowledge is theory only.
You just need an opportunity to vomit all over the place – just as you would defecate all over the place in absence of toilets in your rundia aka India. Get lost, will ya?
the movement of the tectonic plates just caused an earthquake in pakistan but the response to that isn’t to further explore the science behind this. instead it is to pray more to your fictional god as if he is going to save you.
Please explore it for us, while i explore the science behind your production. My probe has already landed – where you came from. Go figure.
Lagta hai idhr se Dajjal nikle ga XP
The world needs more copper and rare-earth elements for the green revolution. This could help us find them.