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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

constraining the ancient position and movement of continents and continental fragments (terranes). The field of paleomagnetism also encompasses equivalent...

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...

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

zircons are interpreted to have been brought up from buried continental crust as fragments entrained as xenocrysts within the basalt. Interpretation of...

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

as the New Zealand continent or Tasmantis, is a nearly submerged continental fragment that sank after breaking away from Australia 60–85 Ma (million years)...

The Mindoro block is a microcontinental block located in the Philippine Mobile Belt and the east side of North Palawan Block. It has comprises a metamorphic...

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...

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...

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

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