Comments on: When Where The Canary Islands Formed?

By: Julio C

Julio C — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:25:28 +0000

Back in the wayback day when Canaries where told they could only poop in certain places.

By: labia69

labia69 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:42:07 +0000

They formed when North America and Europe separated about 60 million years ago during a major continental drift, 5 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs. During this time northern Europe and parts of north america used to be near the Equator and dinosaurs lived there. There is evidence of this in Scotland and parts of the east coast here in the US.

By: Cybele K

Cybele K — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:10:20 +0000

King Juba, Augustus’s Roman protegee, is credited with discovering the islands for the Western world, and he dispatched a contingent to re-open the dye production facility at Mogador in the early 1st century AD.[5] That same naval force was subsequently sent on an exploration of the Canary Islands, using Mogador as their mission base.
When the Europeans began to explore the islands, they encountered several indigenous populations living at a Neolithic level of technology. Although the history of the settlement of the Canary Islands is still unclear, linguistic and genetic analyses seem to indicate that at least some of these inhabitants shared a common origin with the Berbers of northern Africa.[6] The pre-colonial inhabitants came to be known collectively as the Guanches, although Guanches was originally the name for the indigenous inhabitants of Tenerife.
During the Middle Ages, the islands were visited by the Arabs for commercial purposes. Muslim navigator Ibn Farrukh, from Granada, is said to have landed in “Gando” (Gran Canaria) in February 999, visiting a king named Guanarigato. From the 14th century onward, numerous visits were made by sailors from Majorca, Portugal, and Genoa. Lancelotto Malocello settled on the island of Lanzarote in 1312. The Majorcans established a mission with a bishop in the islands that lasted from 1350 to 1400.

By: shortiei

shortiei — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:59:52 +0000

The Canary Islands, a group of volcanic islands, lie just off the west coast of Morocco in the Atlantic Ocean; at the northwest.
The island started forming as a submarine volcano approximately 3-4 million years ago. Subaerial (above the water surface) volcanic activity and island formation began around 2 million years ago.
Geologists believe the Canary Islands formed over the remnants of an old “hotspot” in the mantle, or mantle plume. The residual hotspot melting produced the magma that resulted in the Canary Island volcanoes.
While there is little evidence to support the current existence of a mantle plume, volcanic activity is still taking place—the most recent lava flows on Isla de Palma were erupted in 1971. In addition to volcanic hazards, the Canary Islands are also subject to occasional dust storms originating in the Sahara Desert.