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Puerto Rico together with Cuba and Haiti were included in
the archipelago of Atlantis. According to Scientists view,
they were formed after a cataclysm that happened 8600-8000
B.C. because of falling of huge asteroid. In 3000 B.C. arctic
ice thawed and level of ocean settled approximately on a present
mark.
Our planet is capable to attract giant asteroids and meteorites
at least tenfold more than its sputnik. Therefore, another
asteroid fell on the Earth approximately in 4000 or 3000 B.C.
Two craters of ellipsoid form testify to this event, they
are oriented along the lines from north-west to south-east.
The area of these craters is approximately 200 000 km? and
they are located at a large depth to the east of Florida peninsula
and to the north from Puerto Rico, which is included in the
Caribbean archipelago. An asteroid burst in an atmosphere
as a result of overheat, throwing its fragments within a radius
of more than 1000 km. Two large parts of asteroid fell into
the sea, forming Puerto-Rican cavity of 9 and 7 km, and its
more shallow fragments “wounded” severely the
south-eastern part of the USA.
The geological structure of island consists of volcanic and
abyssal rocks, formed in a period between Cretaceous period
and Eocene epoch of Paleocene period, they are covered with
more layer of Oligocene epoch, and yet later with carbonates
and mountain layers. The age of the oldest mountain rocks
is valued approximately at 190 million years (Jurassic period)
and they are located in municipality Sierra Bermeja in the
south-western part of an island. These layers are the parts
of the ocean crust, and the obviously came from the Pacific
Ocean.
Puerto Rico is situated on the border of the Caribbean and
North-American flags and today it is deformed tectonically
under the action of these flags. Such transformation can cause
earthquakes and tsunamis which are a most geological danger
on an island and northeast of the Caribbean Sea in together
with landslides. A chamfer of Puerto Rico, which is situated
in 120 km to the north of island, is the greatest and the
deepest ocean cavity in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located
on the border of the Caribbean and north-American flags. Its
length is 1,754 km, width is 97 km.
The history of Puerto Rico before the period, when Christopher
Columbus came to this land in 1493, is not yet well studied.
Everything that is known now came to us from archaeological
excavations and verbal stories of the first Spanish travelers.
The first settlers of Puerto Rico were Ortoiroids, the representatives
of ancient culture. Archeological excavations, made in 1990,
found the remains of primitive man, whose age was dated approximately
2.000 B.C.(4000 years). The remains were named “a man
of Puerto Ferro”. In an interval between 120 and by
400 years the representatives of the Indian tribe Igneri arrived
from the district of the river of Orinoco in South America
to the lands of Puerto-Rico. Between VII and by XI ages the
representatives of the Indian tribe founded the culture of
Taino here and began to populate the island up to the time
when Columbus.
References
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2007, April 2). Puerto
Rico. Retrieved April, 2 2007 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico
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