Continental crustal fragments, partly synonymous with microcontinents, are pieces of continents that have broken off from main continental masses to form...

61.1671222°E / -12.1803083; 61.1671222 Mauritia was a Precambrian microcontinent that was situated between India and Madagascar until their separation...

The Seychelles Microcontinent is a microcontinent underlying Seychelles in the western Indian Ocean made of Late Precambrian rock. The granite outcrops...

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...

Avalonia was a microcontinent in the Paleozoic era. Crustal fragments of this former microcontinent underlie south-west Great Britain, southern Ireland...

features termed microcontinents and continental fragments. If classified as a microcontinent, Zealandia would be the world's largest microcontinent. Its area...

Tectonic plates and microcontinents Adriatic Plate Aegean Sea Plate Anatolian Plate Eurasian Plate Iberian Plate Jan Mayen Microcontinent Moesian Plate Pelso...

Ocean and headed towards Laurasia. About 200 million years ago, the microcontinent of Iberia separated from the bulk of Greater Adria. The continent ended...

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...

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:...

the older geology of western Europe existed as part of the ancient microcontinent Avalonia. Having lived side by side with agricultural peoples for millennia...

Avalonia – Microcontinent in the Paleozoic era Baltica – Late-Proterozoic to early-Palaeozoic continent Cathaysia – Late Paleozoic microcontinent Chilenia –...

reconstructions the rocks of the Briançonnais zone were in fact a part of the microcontinent Iberia, that encompassed not only the Iberian Peninsula but also Corsica...

Cimmeria Cimmeria was an ancient continent, or, rather, a string of microcontinents or terranes, that rifted from Gondwana in the Southern Hemisphere and...

Arctica, or Arctida was an ancient continent which formed approximately 2.565 billion years ago in the Neoarchean era. It was made of Archaean cratons...

Pacific and Indo-Australian Plates. New Zealand is part of Zealandia, a microcontinent nearly half the size of Australia that gradually submerged after breaking...

continental fragments such as Madagascar that are generally referred to as microcontinents. Continental crust is only known to exist on Earth. The idea of continental...

Armorica – Microcontinent or group of continental fragments rifted away from Gondwana (France, Germany, Spain and Portugal) Avalonia – Microcontinent in the...

of modern-day North America and Europe. Various smaller continents, microcontinents, and terranes were present east of Laurussia and north of Gondwana...

with the ancient Cimmeria or Crimea Cimmeria (continent), an ancient microcontinent separating the ancient Paleo-Tethys and Neo-Tethys oceans Cimmeria (Conan)...

territories administered by the United Kingdom and claimed by Argentina. A microcontinent on continental crust. The northern part of the island of Cyprus is the...

Geology of Seychelles – Ancient microcontinent Seychelles : the isolated island Mauritia – A Precambrian microcontinent that broke away as India and Madagascar...

Khanty Ocean to the east. In the early Ordovician, around 480 Ma, the microcontinent Avalonia—a landmass incorporating fragments of what would become eastern...

was formed by the Jan Mayen hotspot and is defined by geologists as a microcontinent. Although administered separately, in the ISO 3166-1 standard, Jan Mayen...

off the mainland are the island of Madagascar (the world's largest microcontinent and fourth-largest island) and the Sinai Peninsula (geographically a...

which is an exposed part of the Kaapvaal craton, one of the oldest microcontinents which formed on Earth 3.9 billion years ago. This central peak uplift...

The geology of Seychelles is an example of a felsic granite microcontinent that broke off from the supercontinent Gondwana within the past 145 million...

peripheries. They were divided from each other by a long string of microcontinents known as the Cimmerian terranes. Cimmerian crust had detached from...

microplate typically grouped with the Eurasian Plate that includes the microcontinent Iberia, Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, the Briançonnais zone...

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