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Iceland Is The Tip of a Lost, Sunken Continent, Wild New Theory Suggests TOM METCALFE, LIVE SCIENCE 29 JULY 2021 Iceland may be the last exposed remnant of a nearly Texas-size continent – called Icelandia – that sank beneath the North Atlantic Ocean about 10 million years ago, according to a new theory proposed by an international team of geophysicists and geologists.   The theory goes against long-standing ideas about the formation of Iceland and the North Atlantic, but the researchers say the theory explains both the geological features of the ocean floor and why Earth s crust beneath Iceland is so much thicker than it should be.

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