Scientists from the University of Granada (UGR), in southern Spain, have discovered rocks from micro-continents submerged in the Atlantic between 200 and 3,200 million years ago, zircons that allow the legend of Atlantis to be resurrected, a continent that would have dismembering in the middle of the ocean that Plato already described.
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Granada (UGR), has discovered evidence of several micro-continents that existed between 200 and 3.2 billion years ago, and that are submerged at the bottom of the Central Atlantic Ocean.
His work has revived the old legend of Atlantis, described by Plato 2,300 years ago, which has captivated the imagination of many generations throughout history.
The geochronology team led by Fernando Bea and Pilar González Montero, professors of Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Southern Spain, have found oceanic rocks dredged from the bottom of the Central Atlantic with ages younger than 2-3 million years that contained inherited zircon minerals of much older continental rocks, between 200 and 3.2 billion years old.
These findings have been made in the vicinity of the mid-Atlantic ridge, the great mountain range that is the backbone of the ocean located far from other places where attempts have been made to locate Atlantis, especially on the Greek island of Santorini, partially destroyed a few years ago. 3,600 years by a volcano.
The mineral zircon can be considered a “time capsule” that contains information encoded in the isotopic composition of the elements that form it.
It can crystallize with appreciable amounts of the radioactive elements Thorium and Uranium that disintegrate into various isotopes of Lead, which allows the crystallization age of the ore to be calculated with great precision.
“We are convinced that it is a fragment of a continent that has been dismembered in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,” the researchers explained.
UGR scientists have pointed out that the date on which this dismemberment of the continent took place is given by the ages of the magmatic zircons that coexist with the old ones.
“Therefore, there could have been one or more microcontinents populated by hominids, if we take into account that the homo ancestor walked through Europe 900,000 years ago”, added the authors. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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