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1. bigthink.com › strange-maps › greater-adriaGreater Adria, a lost continent hiding in plain sight - Big Think

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   Oct 18, 2019 · Greater Adria broke off from North Africa 240 million years ago. About 120 million years later, it started sinking beneath Southern Europe. But bits of it remain, scattered across...

2. www.vogue.co.uk › arts-and-lifestyle › articleJK Rowling Shares The Truth About The Real-Life Inspirations ...

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   May 23, 2020 · Harry Potter author JK Rowling has finally set the record straight about the locations that inspired the setting of the Harry Potter books, including the alleged real-like Hogwarts, Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade.

3. www.bbc.com › culture › articleThe myths and folktales behind Harry Potter - BBC

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   Nov 22, 2016 · But where did they come from, the dragons, unicorns and hippogriffs of the Harry Potter universe?

4. www.livescience.com › ancient-lost-continentThere's a Lost Continent Hiding Beneath Europe | Live Science

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   Sep 11, 2019 · The lost continent "Greater Adria" emerged about 240 million years ago, after it broke off from Gondwana, a southern supercontinent made up of Africa, Antarctica, South America,...

5. scifi.stackexchange.com › questions › 3223Where did Harry's parents get all of their money from?

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   May 1, 2011 · Harry's money came from inheritance from his father, James. James was independently wealthy (from family money) when he left Hogwarts, sufficiently such that he was able to support himself, Sirius, and Lily as full-time (unpaid) fighters for the Order of the Phoenix.

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7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Harry_PotterHarry Potter - Wikipedia

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   Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

8. www.vice.com › en › articleThere’s a Lost Continent 1,000 Miles Under Europe - VICE

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   Sep 13, 2019 · Greater Adria was about the size of Greenland when it slammed into Europe during the mid-Cretaceous period. At that time, most of the continent was covered by a shallow sea that supported a...

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   Did 'greater Adria' really exist?

   • Following a 10-year survey, geologists discover a lost continent in the Mediterranean. 'Greater Adria' existed for 100 million years, and was probably "great for scuba diving". Most of it has been swallowed up by Earth's mantle, but bits of it survive. Topographic map of the Mediterranean Sea basin, once home to the continent of Greater Adria.

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   What did greater Adria look like?

   • A shallow continental shelf in a tropical sea, where sediments were slowly turned into rock, Greater Adria possibly resembled Zealandia, a largely submerged continent with bits sticking out (i.e. New Zealand and New Caledonia), or perhaps the Florida Keys, an archipelago of non-volcanic islands.

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   Did 'greater Adria' break off from Gondwana?

   • And researchers have created the most detailed reconstruction of it yet. The lost continent "Greater Adria" emerged about 240 million years ago, after it broke off from Gondwana, a southern supercontinent made up of Africa, Antarctica, South America, Australia and other major landmasses, as Science magazine reported .

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   How long did 'greater Adria' last?

   • 'Greater Adria' existed for 100 million years, and was probably "great for scuba diving". Most of it has been swallowed up by Earth's mantle, but bits of it survive. Topographic map of the Mediterranean Sea basin, once home to the continent of Greater Adria. Move over, Atlantis.

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   Was greater Adria a string of islands or archipelagos?

   • Greater Adria was large, extending from what is now the Alps all the way to Iran, but not all of it was above the water. That means it was likely a string of islands or archipelagos, said lead author Douwe van Hinsbergen, the chair in global tectonics and paleogeography in the Department of Earth Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

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   What tectonic plate did greater Adria belong to?

   • Earth is covered in large tectonic plates that move relative to each other. Greater Adria belonged to the African tectonic plate (but was not a part of the African continent, since there was an ocean between them), which was slowly sliding beneath the Eurasian tectonic plate, in what is now southern Europe.

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