A lost continent lies in pieces beneath southern Europe. Geologists call it Greater Adria: a Greenland-sized landmass that was crushed under Europe, leaving its scraped-off remains scattered through the mountains of Italy, Greece and the Balkans.

A lost continent lies in pieces beneath southern Europe. Geologists call it Greater Adria: a landmass roughly the size of Greenland that broke off the supercontinent Gondwana, drifted north for tens of millions of years, then collided with Europe and was driven down into the mantle. What remains was scraped off the top during that [...] The post A lost continent lies in pieces beneath southern Europe. Geologists call it Greater Adria: a Greenland-sized landmass that was crushed under Europe, lea