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Greater Adria. Greater Adria was a paleomicrocontinent that existed from 240 to 140 million years ago. It is named after Adria, a geologic region found in Italy, where evidence of the microcontinental fragment was first observed. Greater Adria's size can be compared to that of modern day Greenland.
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 local mountain ...
Mar 1, 2023 · This is the very first map of the world’s latest lost continent. The 100-million-year history of Greater Adria starts nearly a quarter of a billion years ago. The world was a very different place back then. It was just recovering from the Permian-Triassic extinction, which came pretty close to wiping out all life on Earth.
Sep 11, 2019 · Around 100 million to 120 million years ago, Greater Adria smashed into Europe and began diving beneath it — but some of the rocks were too light and so did not sink into Earth's mantle.
Sep 15, 2019 · A ’lost continent’ that broke off from the supercontinent Gondwana hundreds of millions of years ago, traces how Greater Adria have been mapped and reconstructed for the first time by ...
Sep 11, 2019 · The destruction of Greater Adria began in earnest 100 million years ago, when it encountered what is now southern Europe and parts of it dove beneath a range of plates all over the region.
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Sep 10, 2019 · The tectonic history of the landmass known as Greater Adria has been under study for a while but the new study is the first systematic time-lapse reconstruction. Greater Adria became a separate entity when it broke away from the supercontinent Gondwana (which contained Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, the Indian subcontinent, and the Arabian Peninsula 240 million years ago.
