The Continents You Won't See on Google Maps

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Submerged beneath oceans, buried in the bedrock, or even swallowed by the land under our feet… Earth’s ancient continents have gone missing. For decades, scientists have been on a quest to unearth these lost lands, but how do we go about finding them? What makes a continent “lost” in the first place? And once found, what can lost continents teach us about our planet’s past, present, and future? ▀▀▀▀▀▀ 02:20 Hunting Lost Lands 06:34 Continents Adrift 08:31 Rising and Falling 11:58 Greater Adria: The Cannibalised Continent 17:53 The Fiery Birth of Mauritia 20:39 No Man’s Land 25:03 The Land Before Ice 29:06 What Could Have Been ▀▀▀▀▀▀ Subscribe to the channel! https://youtube.com/@AstrumEarth Sign-up to our Patreon for early access to Astrum Earth content: https://bit.ly/4aiJZNF ▀▀▀▀▀▀ Check out the other Astrum channels for videos about space and astronomy: Astrum: https://www.youtube.com/@astrumspace Astrum Extra: https://www.youtube.com/@astrumextra Astrum Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6jPRrbq3o3dpvBb173ZTKi?si=a90d3efe3b704c83 Astrum Displate Posters: https://astrumspace.info/Displates Astrum Infographic Artwork: https://electrify.art/collections/astrum Astrum Merch: https://astrum-shop.fourthwall.com/ Join us on the Astrum discord: https://discord.gg/TKw8Hpvtv8 ▀▀▀▀▀▀ References: “Continent”, via nationalgeographic.org https://bit.ly/continentdefinition “What are lost continents, and why are we discovering so many?”, via theconversation.com https://bit.ly/lostcontinents “The missing continent that took 375 years to find”, via bbc.co.uk https://astrumspace.info/Zealandia “Continental Drift”, via nationalgeographic.org https://bit.ly/movingcontinents “Pleistocene epoch: The last ice age”, via livescience.com https://bit.ly/lastIceAge “Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe”, via science.org https://bit.ly/GreaterAdria “What was Pangea?”, via usgs.gov https://bit.ly/whatwasPangea “An Entire Lost Continent Was Found Under The Island