Did you hear the one about the lost continent?

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Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe By Sid Perkins Sep. 6, 2019 , 12:30 PM

Forget the legendary lost continent of Atlantis. Geologists have reconstructed, time slice by time slice, a nearly quarter-of-a-billion-year-long history of a vanished landmass that now lies submerged, not beneath an ocean somewhere, but largely below southern Europe.

The researchers’ analysis represents “a huge amount of work,” says Laurent Jolivet, a geologist at Sorbonne University in Paris who was not involved in the new study. Although the tectonic history of the landmass has been generally known for a few decades, he says, “[T]he amount of detail in the team’s systematic time-lapse reconstruction is unprecedented.”

The only visible remnants of the continent—known as Greater Adria—are limestones and other rocks found in the mountain ranges of southern Europe.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/geologists-uncover-history-lost-continent-buried-beneath-europe


 

I mean that’s like two new continents in as many years:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-zealand-continent/scientists-claim-existence-of-drowned-pacific-ocean-continent-idUSKBN15X044

 

I did read about that. Very interesting. I wonder if they could help me find my keys…