[Rockhounds] Lost continent revealed in new reconstruction of geologic history

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

TAKE A HIKE along the mountain belts scattered around the Adriatic Sea, and
you may find yourself clambering across the crumpled leftovers of a
long-lost continent.

This rocky jumble represents the ruins of a Greenland-size piece of
continental crust
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X19302230#!> that
was demolished millions of years ago, scientists report this month in the
journal *Gondwana Research*. The saga of the continent’s demise is part of
a new report that re-creates the last 240 million years of the
Mediterranean’s tectonic history in unprecedented detail.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/09/lost-continent-revealed-by-plate-tectonics-model-greater-adria-mediterranean/