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- Greater Adria broke off from North Africa 240 million years ago.
www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/greater-adria-a-lost-continent-hiding-in-plain-sight
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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.
Sep 13, 2019 · Greater Adria broke away from the mother continent about 240 million years ago, beginning a slow drift northward. Roughly 140 million years ago, it was about the size of Greenland, mostly...
Sep 25, 2019 · They found that over 200 million years ago, shifting continental plates caused a continent — which the researchers named Greater Adria — to break off from Northern Africa.
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, Australia and...
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...
Greater Adria would have been attached to the north side of the prehistoric supercontinent of Gondwana, which was made up of almost the entire modern world – land masses which are now Africa, Antarctica, South America, Australia and parts of the Middle East and Asia.
Sep 24, 2019 · The long-lost continent of Greater Adria, which broke off from Northern Africa about 240 million years ago and began slipping beneath southern Europe about 100 million years ago.
