According to the group of researchers from the USA, Italy, Croatia and Great Britain, a new ridge of islands may appear in the Adriatic Sea, near the shore of Croatia, in the nearest future.
Geologists say that although Croatia and the Adriatic Sea are very popular tourist routes today, the beauty of local nature may soon include one more place of interest - the youngest islands on the planet.
Islands are formed due to slow but continuous tectonic movements.
Moreover, these movements are slowly shortening the distance between Croatia and Italy.
According to Richard Bennett, an American geologist from the Arizona University, today Croatia includes 1 185 Dalmatia Islands, famous as picturesque tourist routes.
However, in the nearest future new islands shall appear in the Adriatic Sea and form a part of the Dalmatia Islands.
Bennett says that by means of modern satellite technologies a group of Croatian and Italian specialists has made a topographic map of the Adriatic Sea, separating the two countries.
According to the analysis carried out after scanning, the Italian Peninsula is slowly moving towards Croatia.
The average speed of movements makes up approximately 4 mm per year.
"Such speed is not very high.
Numerous islands are moving ten times quicker.
However, in case Italy and Croatia unite in the end (and this shall happen without fail), the Adriatic Sea shall disappear", says Bennet.
The Adriatic Sea is considered to be situated at the top of a narrow prolongation of African tectonic platforms.
These platforms are on three sides surrounded by the great Eurasian Plain, which is gradually squeezing tops of tectonic platforms and thus raising them up.
According to geologists, new islands appear at the meeting-points of platforms.
At the same time, the Adriatic Sea is allotted only 50-70 years.
This period is rather short, judging by the geologic scales.
After that there shall be neither the Adriatic Sea, nor the Dalmatia Islands.
However, there is another reason for the appearance of new islands on our planet.
This is the global warming that separates the peninsulas from the continent turning them in to islands.
And in the near future some cold places on our planet can become warm resorts [http://www.
tripspirit.
com/189:The-climate-change-will-turn-cold-districts-to-resorts].
Geologists say that although Croatia and the Adriatic Sea are very popular tourist routes today, the beauty of local nature may soon include one more place of interest - the youngest islands on the planet.
Islands are formed due to slow but continuous tectonic movements.
Moreover, these movements are slowly shortening the distance between Croatia and Italy.
According to Richard Bennett, an American geologist from the Arizona University, today Croatia includes 1 185 Dalmatia Islands, famous as picturesque tourist routes.
However, in the nearest future new islands shall appear in the Adriatic Sea and form a part of the Dalmatia Islands.
Bennett says that by means of modern satellite technologies a group of Croatian and Italian specialists has made a topographic map of the Adriatic Sea, separating the two countries.
According to the analysis carried out after scanning, the Italian Peninsula is slowly moving towards Croatia.
The average speed of movements makes up approximately 4 mm per year.
"Such speed is not very high.
Numerous islands are moving ten times quicker.
However, in case Italy and Croatia unite in the end (and this shall happen without fail), the Adriatic Sea shall disappear", says Bennet.
The Adriatic Sea is considered to be situated at the top of a narrow prolongation of African tectonic platforms.
These platforms are on three sides surrounded by the great Eurasian Plain, which is gradually squeezing tops of tectonic platforms and thus raising them up.
According to geologists, new islands appear at the meeting-points of platforms.
At the same time, the Adriatic Sea is allotted only 50-70 years.
This period is rather short, judging by the geologic scales.
After that there shall be neither the Adriatic Sea, nor the Dalmatia Islands.
However, there is another reason for the appearance of new islands on our planet.
This is the global warming that separates the peninsulas from the continent turning them in to islands.
And in the near future some cold places on our planet can become warm resorts [http://www.
tripspirit.
com/189:The-climate-change-will-turn-cold-districts-to-resorts].
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