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

plates, but exclude small continental fragments such as Madagascar that are generally referred to as microcontinents. Continental crust is only known to...

forming archipelagos can be referred to as oceanic islands, continental fragments, or continental islands. Oceanic islands are formed by volcanoes erupting...

years ago. It has been described variously as a submerged continent, continental fragment, and microcontinent. The name and concept for Zealandia was proposed...

Madagascar is a large island in the Indian Ocean located 400 kilometres (250 mi) off the eastern coast of Southern Africa, east of Mozambique. It has a...

v t e Continents of Earth See also: World portal Regions of the world Continental fragment Category Chronology of continents...

composed of continental lithosphere. One or several ridge jumps transformed the Elan Bank into a microcontinent and dispersed continental fragments in the...

divided by whether the collision is with a second continent or a continental fragment or island arc. Repeated collisions of the later type, with no evidence...

19 to 24 kilometres (12 to 15 mi) thick surrounded by a thinned out continental crust which is 14 to 17 kilometres (8.7 to 10.6 mi) thick on each side...

few hundred miles off the coast of New Zealand. It represents a continental fragment that separated from Zealandia as a result of rifting. The seamount...

produced the continent of Laurussia. During this time, several small continental fragments merged with other margins of the craton. These included the North...

it belongs to Africa as it represents a continental fragment that is geologically linked to the continental African Somali Plate. The archipelago consists...

Yemen, but it geographically belongs to Africa as it represents a continental fragment that is geologically linked to the Somali Plate. The archipelago...

ancient continental crust (Zimbabwe) Bellingshausen plate – Ancient tectonic plate that fused onto the Antarctic plate Charcot plate – Fragment of the...

possible submerged continent between the Indian and African coasts. Continental fragment – Part of a continent broken from its main mass Lost lands – Islands...

The Vespucci passage above applied the "New World" label to merely the continental landmass of South America. At the time, most of the continent of North...

independent continental mass when Pangaea broke up into Gondwana and Laurasia. Laurentia, the Palaeozoic core of North America and continental fragments that...

India and Asia (~3,600 km or 2,200 mi). These authors propose a continental fragment of northern Gondwana rifted from India, traveled northward, and initiated...

and eventually severed, replaced by oceanic crust. The edges of continental fragments formed this way (both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, for example)...

on Zealandia has taken place repeatedly in various parts of the continental fragment before, during, and after it rifted away from the supercontinent...

Ditza (1998). Eratosthenes Seamount: the possible spearhead of incipient continental collision in the Eastern Mediterranean, in Robertson, A.H.F., Emeis,...

northern part of the Mascarene Plateau is formed of granite, and is a fragment of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana. The granite is topped with deposits...

Continental Airlines (simply known as Continental) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1934 until it merged with United Airlines...

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administrative division Continent Continental fragment European Committee of the Regions Euroregion List of continents and continental subregions by population...

writes in the same style as Hellanicus, suggesting a similarity between a fragment of Hellanicus's work and an account in the Critias. Rodney Castleden suggests...

Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Orphan Knoll, an undersea peak, horst and continental fragment in the Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland Orphan (typesetting), the...

"U–Pb geochronology of Seychelles granitoids: a Neoproterozoic continental arc fragment". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 187 (1): 27–38. Bibcode:2001E&PSL...

Lake, Newfoundland Gander River, Newfoundland Gander terrane, a continental fragment in Newfoundland Gander Island, part of the Moore Islands, British...

rising to 2,400 m (7,900 ft) below sea level. The seamount is a continental fragment that rifted away from the South Tasman Rise and Challenger Plateau...