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Meaning of "microcontinent"
A 'microcontinent' is a noun that describes a very small continent or a fragment of a continent that is separate from a larger landmass
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- a landmass which is not small enough to be considered an island but not big enough to be considered a continent
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It is also a microcontinent and submerged continent.
All these sediments are thought to be derived from a continent or microcontinent.
The area around the microcontinent has recently become open for licensing for hydrocarbon exploration.
There is indeed under Mauritius a microcontinent.
This supposedly formed a microcontinent that became sandwiched between the large continental masses north and south.
Dreki includes the southern tip of the Jan Mayen microcontinent.
The microcontinent would have appeared in the Jurassic era.
The latter is part of the Briançonnais microcontinent and is located in the Penninic nappes.
It eventually rifted off, becoming a drifting microcontinent.
Cathaysia was a microcontinent or a group of terranes that rifted off Gondwana during the Late Paleozoic.
The movements of the microcontinent Iberia.
The microcontinent Armorica.
The territory of Ledringhem was part of the microcontinent Avalonia in the Paleozoic era.
The microcontinent Iberia.
The Briançonnais microcontinent zone.
See also
The Briançonnais microcontinent and Valais Ocean ( with island arcs ) subducted beneath the Adriatic plate.
The Mauritia microcontinent.
The microcontinent extends about 500 km southwards from the Jan Mayen fracture zone.
The Moldanubian Zone is interpreted as the lower crust of a microcontinent called Cadomia or Armorica.
The Kazakhstania microcontinent had collided with Siberia.
The London - Brabant Massif is part of the former microcontinent Avalonia.
Cimmeria was an ancient microcontinent that existed about 200 million years ago.
Aquitaine block, also called microcontinent Aquitania.
The islands are part of a submerged microcontinent called the Kerguelen sub-continent.
