This lost continent off the coast of Scotland disappeared beneath the ocean 55 million years ago
Researchers believe the forgotten continent was above water for at least 1 million years
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http://www.tecca.com/news/2011/07/12/scotland-lost-continent/#ZoMKusxs52yshjP7.99http://www.tecca.com/news/2011/07/12/scotland-lost-continent/"This week, a group of geologists report that they've found a lost continent off the coast of Scotland. 55 million years ago, about 10 million years after dinosaurs died out, a chunk of the seafloor erupted from beneath the water. It created a small continent that existed for at least a million years, covered in dramatic mountains and valleys, and irrigated with streaming rivers. Eventually the landscape sank back beneath the waves, its once-sunny mountains buried beneath 2 kilometers of seabed."