Researchers have discovered Earth's hidden eighth continent, but it's not Atlantis
The continent is called Greater Adria. It's the size of Greenland and it broke off from North Africa, only to be buried under Southern Europe about 140 million years ago.And chances are, you've been there without even knowing it. "Forget Atlantis," said Douwe van Hinsbergen, study author and professor of global tectonics and paleogeography at Utrecht University.
Remnants of the lost continent can be seen in the Taurus Mountains in Turkey. "Subduction, the plunging of one plate under the other, is the basic way in which mountain chains are formed," said Van Hinsbergen."Our research provided a large number of insights, also about volcanism and earthquakes, that we are already applying elsewhere. You can even predict, to a certain extent, what a given area will look like in the far future.
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