[New post] ‘Icelandia’: Is Iceland the tip of a vast, sunken continent?
oldbrew posted: "There could be more to Iceland than meets the eye. A lot more, if these theorists are right. - - - Academics believe they have identified a remarkable geological secret: A sunken continent hidden under Iceland and the surrounding ocean, which they have du"
Evidence for plate divergence in Iceland [image credit: Rob Young @ Wikipedia]
There could be more to Iceland than meets the eye. A lot more, if these theorists are right. - - - Academics believe they have identified a remarkable geological secret: A sunken continent hidden under Iceland and the surrounding ocean, which they have dubbed "Icelandia", says Phys.org.
Academics believe they have identified a remarkable geological secret: A sunken continent hidden under Iceland and the surrounding ocean,which they have dubbed "Icelandia."
An international team of geologists, led by Gillian Foulger, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University (UK), believe the sunken continent could stretch from Greenland all the way to Europe.
It is believed to cover an area of ~600,000 km2 but when adjoining areas west of Britain are included in a "Greater Icelandia," the entire area could be ~1,000,000 km2 in size.
If proven, it means that the giant supercontinent of Pangaea, which is thought to have broken up over 50 million years ago, has in fact not fully broken up.
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