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Durham, UK:
Academics believe they have identified a remarkable geological secret; a sunken continent hidden under Iceland and the surrounding ocean, which they have dubbed 'Icelandia'.An international team of geologists, led by Gillian Foulger, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics in the
Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University (UK), believe the sunken continent could stretch from Greenland all the way to Europe.
It is believed to cover an area of ~ 600,000 km2 but when adjoining areas west of Britain are included in a "Greater Icelandia" the entire area could be ~1,000,000 km2 in size.
If proven, it means that the giant supercontinent of Pangaea, which is thought to have broken up over 50 million years ago, has in fact not fully broken up.
This new theory challenges long-held scientific ideas around the extent of oceanic and continental crust in the North Atlantic region, and how volcanic islands, like Iceland, formed.
The presence of continental, rather than oceanic, crust could also spark discussions about a new source of minerals and hydrocarbons, both of which are contained in continental crust.
The revolutionary new theory was born from an innovative series of expert meetings held in Durham (UK) and is included in a dedicated chapter of
In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton: New Ideas in Earth Science published today (29 June 2021), by the Geological Society of America, which Professor Foulger has co-written with Dr Laurent Gernigon of the Geological Survey of Norway and Professor Laurent Geoffroy of the Ocean Geosciences Laboratory, University of Brest (France).
Speaking about the new theory Professor Foulger said:
"Until now Iceland has puzzled geologists as existing theories that it is built of, and surrounded by, oceanic crust are not supported by multiple geological data. For example, the crust under Iceland is over 40 km thick - seven times thicker than normal oceanic crust. This simply could not be explained.
"However, when we considered the possibility that this thick crust is continental, our data suddenly all made sense. This led us immediately to realise that the continental region was much bigger than Iceland itself - there is a hidden continent right there under the sea.
"There is fantastic work to be done to prove the existence of Icelandia but it also opens up a completely new view of our geological understanding of the world. Something similar could be happening at many more places.
"We could eventually see maps of our oceans and seas being redrawn as our understanding of what lies beneath changes."
The research team is now working with collaborators from across the globe on work to test their theory, which will begin once Covid-19 restrictions allow.
This work could involve electrical conductivity surveys, and the collection of zircon crystals in Iceland and elsewhere. Other tests such as seismic profiling and drilling would need millions of pounds to fund, but such is the importance of this work that funding may well be forthcoming.
Professor Foulger is a world-leading geologist whose research has contributed to mapping the geological composition of the seabed in relation to continental land masses.
This work has important legal and political ramifications as, under certain conditions, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea grants coastal states exclusive rights to the non-living resources of their adjacent seabed if scientists can prove that the seabed is a submerged extension of the continental landmass.
Professor Philip Steinberg, Director of IBRU, Durham University's Centre for Borders Research, noted: "Countries around the world are spending enormous resources conducting subsea geologic research in order to identify their continental shelves and claim exclusive mineral rights there.
"Research like Professor Foulger's, which forces us to rethink the relationship between seabed and continental geology can have far-reaching impact for countries trying to determine what area of the seabed are their exclusive preserve and what areas are to be governed by the International Seabed Authority as the 'common heritage of humankind."
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For me the link was a good visual of what possibly did occur rapidly, versus billions and billions of years. It put the flood into a better perspective, touching on the aspects described in the bible.Just remember, we've been taught uniformitarianism in schools, so we are biased for any other radical explanation.
Check out "Is Genesis History" channel on YT, before they haul it down someday soon. Real experts discuss the different aspects they see in geology and the fossil record. I find it pretty intersting. It's what creationists were discussing 100 yrs ago, before we went the uniformitarianism route.
If the world really only is around 6000yrs old, I find the catastrophism timeline has fewer gaps, than uniformitaianism which has huge gaps and long timelines to explain their "theory".
So it's probably true.
Though how Pangaea existed when that would mean the other side of Earth was completely covered by ocean, still stupefies me. One of those questions that will never be explained with any clarity.
All Slavs come from there. The Slavic race appears to be the oldest existing race in the world. Henetic research confirms this scenario.
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For example, here in Poland, the Slavs have existed so long that no one knows how long :-)
Interesting facts, do you know what the word Perun means? Lightning:-)))
And the Slavic Vedas are really unusual, I recommend reading them to everyone. Even to ufologists, because they say a lot about the interference of external races, about the lessons that people learned from them.
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One race of humans are those who came from the north when it was still warm and not frozen. They are Slavs. They crossed Siberia and stayed in the vicinity of present-day Poland, and in the south they stopped in India
Another race is the race of people of Western Europe, Greece, Rome, Goths, etc.
Another sowing is the Negroes and the last one is the Chinese, although I am not sure whether the Chinese are also people from the North, but a very distant branch. I see many similarities despite the differences in appearance.
In the meantime, we also had another division, of course, Atlantis and Lemuria. However, after the great cataclysm caused by the Atlanteans, who combined with the power of crystals, the continent fell apart.
Many of them fled to the surviving continents, became American Indians among others, settled on Easter Island, etc.
But this is an independent story in which the Slavs did not take part, except that the flood flooded us here too :-)
I will be happy to see the programs, although I spent a lot of time on these topics, I was also involved in this puzzle. Someone has mixed up this story quite well, although it is quite simple :-)
If you are interested in these matters, I recommend that you read the Slavic Vedas yourself. There is nothing like first-hand information :-)
Oh ... apart from Perun, there was also another figure of Swaróg, this one was higher than Perun :-)
So, you see our world, everything is clear!:-)
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