Do parts of the island of Hvar have some surprising roots? From Mexico, perhaps?
Hvar never ceases to surprise, no matter how much I write about the island and think I have finally learned all of its secrets.
One of the first surprises when I started Total Hvar was to find that the island was in possession of a dinosaur footprint, something which was investigated and confirmed by a National Geographic field team. Indeed, it was one of my first blogs for Total Hvar to report on Hvar’s first inhabitants, some 90 million years ago.
And then I stumbled upon the next major event in Hvar’s timeline history this morning, a mere 24 million years later. Having Googled it, it was something which was reported on two years ago in the media, but if it happened 66 million years ago, a couple of years late is not so bad… And the most interesting part of the story is told in these videos below, which sadly all have less than 100 views. They contain a detailed explanation of why some of Hvar’s rocky terrain came to its final resting place, having started out life as far away as Mexico!
The stuff of science fiction? Perhaps. But it sounds very convincing when you listen to the explanations of respected geologist Dr. Tvrtko Korbar, who goes into considerable detail looking in the evidence. I will leave the technical explanations to him, but in brief, and asteroid hit Earth in what is present-day Mexico some 66 million years ago, causing multiple earthquakes and a mega-tsunami, with the most distant shallow water deposits landing on Croatia’s premier island, as we know it today.
