The 'Brazilian Atlantis': Geologists find part of hidden continent buried beneath the Atlantic Ocean

Daily Mail ^ | UPDATED: 11:42 EST, 7 May 2013 | Victoria Woollaston

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

• Granite samples could have been submerged by the Atlantic Ocean when Africa split from South America 100 million years ago
  
• Geologists have dubbed this mysterious continent the 'Brazilian Atlantis'
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  Rocks discovered off the coast of Rio in Brazil could be part of a hidden continent, according to geologists.

  The granite samples were found when Brazil's Geology Service (CPRM) dredged the seabed near the Rio Grande Elevation - a long seismic mountainous ridge that runs along the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

  And now scientists claim the rocks were likely part of a continent that sunk into the ocean when Africa and South America drifted apart 100 million years ago - dubbing the discovery the 'Brazilian Atlantis'.

  

  A CPRM member showing one of the rocks from the deep-sea during dredging works, 900 miles off the shore of Rio de Janeiro. According to the CPRM director, Roberto Ventura Santos, the rocks would be part of the former continent submerged when the Atlantic Ocean rose up from the separation of now Africa and South America

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[fieldmarshaldj]

Ugh, looks like something I dropped in the commode the other day.

[Conspiracy Guy]

That looks like Joe Dirt’s froze turd.

[Mechanicos]

DONOVAN- ATLANTIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leI7sfmipuI

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Is nothing new? Back in March 1966 the major newspapers across the US were reporting about a sunken civilization with cities found off the West coast of South America.

Later a Mormon tried to convince me that the sunken cities were covered with Hebrew writing.

I haven’t heard a word of them since.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

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[Yardstick]

I’ll look on the bright side and say it looks like a funky pumpernickel loaf.

[JamesA]

Shucks, I have them all over where my cattle roam, step in them every day no big thing.

[bunkerhill7]

Dinosaur DOO-DOO

[fieldmarshaldj]

Call it that if you wish, but that sumbitch can be measured in courics.

[Fred Nerks]

...And now scientists claim the rocks were likely part of a continent that sunk into the ocean when Africa and South America drifted apart 100 million years ago - dubbing the discovery the 'Brazilian Atlantis'.

SORRY BUT...THAT long seismic mountainous ridge that runs along the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean...ISN'T THAT OLD!

[BenLurkin]

Looks like the Obamas that bison leave on the prairie.

[editor-surveyor]

Actually, they’re Prius Eggs.

[a fool in paradise]

A couple BRAZILLIAN leagues beneath the sea...

[Grimmy]

“Actually, they’re Prius Eggs.”

I donno. That does look an awful lot like a sea turdle.

[Bratch]

Ancient horta nest?