The remains of an ancient lost continent of the North Atlantic, dating back millions of years, have been found off the Canadian coast. They are hidden among the ice of the island of Baffin, the fifth largest in the world, which stretches for about 500,000 square kilometers between Canada and Greenland. This is what emerges from the study published in the Journal of Petrology by the group of geologists of the Canadian University of British Columbia, coordinated by Maya Kopylova.
The evidence is contained in some rocks found in the south of the island of Baffin during a campaign to explore the subsoil in search of diamonds. These are underground rocks which, explains Kopylova, “like rockets collect passengers on their way to the surface. And these passengers - he adds - are pieces of rocks that carry a great deal of detail on the conditions of the earth's subsoil over time ".
According to the authors of the study, these rocks, which experts call kimberlite, formed at a depth of less than 150 kilometers, in the so-called terrestrial mantle, "to then be pushed to the surface by geological and chemical forces," explains Kopylova. "Their appearance under today's island of Baffin - concludes the researcher - represents the end of a dispersion that occurred about 150 million years ago, during the fracture of the continental plate of the North Atlantic", a lost continent of which, according to the scholar , we know just 10%.
