Greater Adria
English
Etymology
greater + Adria. From being first discovered in researching the geologic region called Adria.[1]
Proper noun
Greater Adria
- (paleogeography, paleogeology) A Greenland-sized paleo-microcontinent in the Neo-Tethys Ocean, that rifted from the north of Africa portion of the supercontinent of Gondwana and accreted to the south of Europe portion of the supercontinent of Laurasia, and thence subducted. Before accreting to Laurasia, the microcontinent of Iberia rifted from Greater Adria. What was once Greater Adria now forms the Alps, Apennines, the Balkans, Anatolia, the Caucasus. Including the Iberian microcontinent, it also now forms Iberia, the Pyrenees, and Occitania. [2][3][4]
Hypernyms
- microcontinent
- paleomicrocontinent
- continent
- paleocontinent
External links
- Gondwana Research; "Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic"; Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergena, Trond H. Torsvikbc, Stefan M. Schmidd, Liviu C. Maţencoa, Marco Maffioneae, Reinoud L.M. Vissersa, Derya Güreraf, Wim Spakmanab; DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.009; 2019
References
- Washington Post, "You may have visited the long-lost continent of Greater Adria without even knowing it", Kayla Epstein, 24 September 2019
- CNN, "A lost continent has been found under Europe", Ashley Strickland, 23 September 2019
- Forbes, "Goodbye Atlantis, Hello ‘Greater Adria’. A Lost Continent Has Been Mapped By Geologists", Jamie Carter, 15 September 2019
- National Geographic, "Lost continent revealed in new reconstruction of geologic history", Robin George Andrews, 11 September 2019
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