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- Continental crustal fragments, partly synonymous with microcontinents, are pieces of continents that have broken off from main continental m****es to form...
- The Seyc****es microcontinent underlies the Seyc****es in the western Indian Ocean made of Late Precambrian rock. The granite outcrops of the Seyc****es...
- 61.1671222°E / -12.1803083; 61.1671222 Mauritia was a Precambrian microcontinent that was situated between India and Madagascar until their separation...
- 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...
- 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...
- microplate typically grouped with the Eurasian plate that includes the microcontinent Iberia, Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, the Briançonnais zone...
- the older geology of western Europe existed as part of the ancient microcontinent Avalonia. Having lived side by side with agricultural peoples for millennia...
- 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:...