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Forget the story of lost continent of Atlantis. According to a study published in Science.org, geologists pieced together the history of nearly a quarter of a billion segment by segment to locate Great Adria, a huge landmass now submerged in the depths of water and another of the continents that currently make up Earth. Here we detail you where HE finds and under which one is hidden.
Great Adriahe submerged continent In the depths of the oceans, it lies just below southern Europe, and according to the researchers, the only visible remains of the lost continent are limestone and other rocks found in the mountain ranges of southern Europe. Scientists believe that these rocks started out as marine sediments and were then scraped from the surface of the landmass and lifted up through the collision of tectonic plates.
However, the size, shape and history of Great Adria, much of which was hidden under shallow tropical seas for millions of years, have been difficult to reconstruct. Geologists believe the lost mass had a violent history after it became an individual entity when it broke away from the supercontinent of Gondwana (which included present-day Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, the Indian subcontinent, and the Arabian Peninsula) about 240 million years ago.
This is how Europa prevailed over Great Adria and plunged it into the depths of the ocean
Separating from the supercontinent Gondwana, Great Adria began to move north. Scientists believe that around 140 million years ago, it was a landmass the size of Greenland, largely submerged beneath a tropical sea, where sediments accumulated and slowly turned to rock. Then, when it collided with what is now Europe between 100 and 120 million years ago, it broke apart and was pushed under that continent.
Only a fraction of the rocks of Great Adria, remained on the Earth’s surface, which made geologists discover them. Another complication is that the rocks of the lost continent they are dispersed in more than 30 countries, in a strip from Spain to Iran, so they are difficult to collect. As the mass is broken and dispersed in various areas of what is now Europe, experts do not estimate that it can emerge to the surface.
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