Continental fragment (redirect from Microcontinent)
Continental crustal fragments, partly synonymous with microcontinents, are pieces of continents that have broken off from main continental masses to form...
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61.1671222°E / -12.1803083; 61.1671222 Mauritia was a Precambrian microcontinent that was situated between India and Madagascar until their separation...
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The Seychelles Microcontinent is a microcontinent underlying Seychelles in the western Indian Ocean made of Late Precambrian rock. The granite outcrops...
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Avalonia (redirect from Avalon microcontinent)
Avalonia was a microcontinent in the Paleozoic era. Crustal fragments of this former microcontinent underlie south-west Great Britain, southern Ireland...
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The Jan Mayen Microcontinent is a fragment of continental crust within the oceanic part of the western Eurasian Plate lying northeast of Iceland. At the...
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features termed microcontinents and continental fragments. If classified as a microcontinent, Zealandia would be the world's largest microcontinent. Its area...
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Ocean and headed towards Laurasia. About 200 million years ago, the microcontinent of Iberia separated from the bulk of Greater Adria. The continent ended...
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Scotia Plate (section South Georgia microcontinent)
stretches from Isla de los Estados off Tierra del Fuego in the west to the microcontinent South Georgia in the east, with a series of shallow banks in between:...
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Adriatic Plate (redirect from Apulia (microcontinent))
Tectonic plates and microcontinents Adriatic Plate Aegean Sea Plate Anatolian Plate Eurasian Plate Iberian Plate Jan Mayen Microcontinent Moesian Plate Pelso...
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Kerguelen Plateau (section Microcontinent)
peak output of the Kerguelen hotspot coincides with one or several microcontinent formations, such as the Elan Bank. Since the Indian Ocean began to open...
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