Scientists have recently discovered a new continent, deep within the southern arm of the Arctic Ocean, which is believed to have been formed 60 million years ago.
Researchers from the University of Derby in the UK stumbled upon the 250-mile-long landmass beneath the Davis Strait, located between Canada and Greenland, while investigating plate tectonic movements.
This newly found Davis Strait proto-microcontinent, a tectonic block that separated from a continent, was created through an extended period of rifting and seafloor spreading between Greenland and North America.
The team utilized a combination of crustal thickness data from gravity maps, seismic reflection data, and plate tectonic modeling to identify the new microcontinent.
