EGAVE

microcontinent

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Meaning

  1. noun A fragment of continental crust that has cleaved off its parent tectonic plate.

Similar words

continent tectonic plate supercontinent cycle terrane plate tectonics foreland diastrophism continental drift mountain chain tectophase

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