GFP Note: This is a follow-up to our recent story Researchers: We May Have Found Brazilian 'Atlantis'
The Daily Beast - by Mac Margolis, 5/10/13
Off the coast of Brazil, in one of the earth’s least explored waters, geologists have made an intriguing find.
A rock on the seabed of the Alto Rio Grande elevation. (Brazilian Geological Service)
This week, a joint Brazilian-Japanese research team broke its long silence, officially unveiling its find with a head-turning and slightly mischievous teaser: Could this be a “Brazilian Atlantis?”
“Today we believe we may have found vestiges of an unknown continent,” Roberto Ventura Santos, head of the Brazilian Geological Service, told The Daily Beast. The evidence? Not gold but granite. “We expected to find volcanic rock and debris, typical of a seabed, not granite. Granite is typically found on the continental shelf.”
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