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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 11, 2019 · Greater Adria as it existed 140 million years ago, before sliding beneath what is now southern europe. The darker green areas depict the land above the water and the lighter green, the land...
Sep 13, 2019 · Greater Adria broke away from the mother continent about 240 million years ago, beginning a slow drift northward.
Mar 1, 2023 · 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 ranges.
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 geologists...
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. The Mediterranean region is one of the most geographically complex on Earth, and geologists from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, discovered the region has been ...
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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.
