Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2020 10:46:22 GMT -7
Hints of ancient ‘lost continent’ found in Baffin Island, Canada during diamond exploration
The Daily News reports:
"Fragments of an ancient continent that used to stretch from Scotland to Greenland have been found under Baffin Island, Canada, indicating that the lost land mass was even bigger than scientists initially thought.
Researchers exploring diamond deposits in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, comprising Inuit traditional territory, found unique mineral compositions hitching a ride on the deposits they were bringing up. The findings indicate the once-upon-a-time continent was 10% larger than previous estimates, CNN reported.
The University of British Columbia (UBC) geologists were studying diamond samples brought up from deep beneath the surface. This fragment of Earth’s crust is known as the North Atlantic Craton, which ran from Scotland to North America and broke up 150 million years ago, CNN said.
A craton is “a part of the Earth's crust that has attained stability, and has been little deformed for a prolonged period,” the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) explains".
Read the full story here.
"Fragments of an ancient continent that used to stretch from Scotland to Greenland have been found under Baffin Island, Canada, indicating that the lost land mass was even bigger than scientists initially thought.
Researchers exploring diamond deposits in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, comprising Inuit traditional territory, found unique mineral compositions hitching a ride on the deposits they were bringing up. The findings indicate the once-upon-a-time continent was 10% larger than previous estimates, CNN reported.
The University of British Columbia (UBC) geologists were studying diamond samples brought up from deep beneath the surface. This fragment of Earth’s crust is known as the North Atlantic Craton, which ran from Scotland to North America and broke up 150 million years ago, CNN said.
A craton is “a part of the Earth's crust that has attained stability, and has been little deformed for a prolonged period,” the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) explains".
Read the full story here.